Emma Thompson Quotes

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson

Communication, Family, Bad

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
Emma Thompson

Women, Beautiful, Pain

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson

Death, Hurt, Crisis

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
Emma Thompson

Work, Lie, Through

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
Emma Thompson

Moving On, Age, Heart

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
Emma Thompson

Human, Wish, Kinder

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
Emma Thompson

Live, Gay, Lost

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
Emma Thompson

Known, Physical, British

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson

Death, Difficult, Quite

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
Emma Thompson

Woman, Far, Changed

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
Emma Thompson

Someone, Face, Imagine

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
Emma Thompson

Change, True, Why

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
Emma Thompson

Work, Time, Best

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
Emma Thompson

Learning, Parenting, Dream

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
Emma Thompson

Care, Past, Seriously

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
Emma Thompson

Women, Men, Sex

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Emma Thompson

End, Children, Wonderful

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
Emma Thompson

Children, Advice, Half

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
Emma Thompson

Job, Same, Around

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
Emma Thompson

End, Someone, Beginning

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

Technique, Learnt

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.
Emma Thompson

Famous, Mean, Two

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.
Emma Thompson

Hate, Together, Enjoy

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
Emma Thompson

Life, Daily, Film

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.
Emma Thompson

Family, Good, Health

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Nationality: English

Born: April 15, 1959

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