228 Quotes by Emma Thompson

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.

It’s such a cold night and it’s the only time I’ve actively been grateful for menopause. I’ve been entirely comfortable.

Why do we wear them? They’re so painful.

Don’t ever go on a diet. Just don’t. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

I understand what it’s like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, ‘She’s got her daughter; she’s got her husband.’ Yeah, but she hasn’t got anyone else.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That’s what clowns are for. And that’s what I am.

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we’ve stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

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

I ask Laurie it it’s possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I’ve never produced a movie.