228 Quotes by Emma Thompson

I 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: “The 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. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.

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

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

It'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?

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

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.