Itโs about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma ThompsonSometimes 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.
Emma ThompsonI think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
Emma ThompsonAny problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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