Emma Thompson Quotes

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone is...

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produ...

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Eliza...

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'H...

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone t...

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath t...

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal ...

We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to ...

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened...

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the v...

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in...

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]....

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - ...

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' wa...

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I thi...

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there a...

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and liste...

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When as...

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficul...

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would h...

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lo...

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier....

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot and to behav...

My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and...

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do ...

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need the...