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 ThompsonTell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
Emma ThompsonDifficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
Emma ThompsonBeing disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
Emma ThompsonI 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 ThompsonIt's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?
Emma Thompson