I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
Emma ThompsonI ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.
Emma ThompsonI 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 ThompsonI think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: โThe only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. โSense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.
Emma Thompson