Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompsonis a British actress, a comedian, and a writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth15 April 1959
CityLondon, England
chart hour kids less nine realized slowly
They were like, 'You can't have that. It's too expensive.' I was like, 'OK, 29.' Then I slowly went down to 17, 13, 11, nine. I said, 'I'm not going any less than nine. It's not going to make sense and there's not going to be enough kids.' But then I realized I could not chart nine kids in an hour and a half.
real preparation roles
If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.
dream real home
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
names winston
I've been toying with names like Winston and Clementine, but I don't think they're going to wash,
changed english-actress groups large ordinary people planet saying
The way, I think, anything has ever really changed on this planet is through large groups of very ordinary people saying something finally.
gets given name names sort thinking
Every name I think of gets pooh-poohed by my partner, the young Mr. Greg Wise, ... I've sort of given up thinking of names now.
certainly charities developing english-actress huge took trouble
I think if you took charities and NGOs out of the mix, certainly in developing countries, you would find that there would be huge trouble immediately.
children terrible
I think it would be terrible if what children come away (with) from this movie was that you've always got to behave. No! Not so!
opposite reached
Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.
nanny react
She was the only one that didn't react to me when I was in Nanny mode.
people sleeve
Let's see how this one goes, but I have one up my sleeve if we think that people want it.
art excited interest office people post starting
There is a lot of interest in post office art today, I think people are appreciating what we have, ... We're excited and starting to look up to see what's there, and that is my purpose.
lovely
It's lovely to be here, and at least it's, you know, no effort.
hard time wander
It was a hard time but you have to get on with things.You can't wander around miserable.