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| Emma Thompson |
Let me just say that I adore Emma
Thompson. I will never be able to do justice to her so let me just allow her to do the talking!
''I don't want your readers ever to think they have to have it all. I
think that's a revolting concept. It's so false! Sometimes
you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And
you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you."--on juggling motherhood and careers
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| Sense and Sensibility |
Elinor Dashwood:
Marianne, please try... I cannot... I cannot do without you. Oh, please,
I have tried to bear everything else... I will try... but please,
dearest, beloved Marianne, do not leave me alone.
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| Love Actually |
Karen : Get a grip, people hate sissies. No-one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time!
"Liam Neeson, quite frankly, is sex on legs. Always has been".
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| Professor Trelawney in Harry Potter |
"I 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."
-- on her role in the Harry Potter film.
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| Nanny McPhee |
"I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad."
"There is that thing about not working with animals
and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work
with donkeys."
"You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face."
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| An Education |
Headmistress:
Nobody does anything worth doing without a degree.
Jenny:
Nobody does anything worth doing WITH a degree. No woman anyway.
Headmistress:
So what I do isn't worth doing? Or what Miss Stubbs does, or Mrs.
Wilson, or any of us here? Because none of us would be here without a
degree. You do realize that, don't you? And yes, of course studying is
hard and boring...
Jenny:
Boring!
Headmistress:
I'm sorry?
Jenny:
Studying is hard and boring. Teaching is hard and boring. So, what
you're telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored
again, but this time for the rest of my life? This whole stupid country
is bored! There's no life in it, or color, or fun! It's probably just as
well the Russians are going to drop a nuclear bomb on us any day now.
So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my... Jew,
and go to Paris and Rome and listen to jazz, and read, and eat good food
in nice restaurants, and have fun! It's not enough to educate us
anymore Ms. Walters. You've got to tell us why you're doing it.
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| Howard's End |
Margaret Schlegel:
Unlike the Greek, England has no true mythology. All we have are witches and fairies.
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| Remains Of The Day |
Miss Kenton:
What's in that book? Come on, let me see!
Stevens:
This is my private time. You're invading it.
Miss Kenton:
Oh, is that so?
Stevens:
Yes.
Miss Kenton:
I'm invading your private time, am I?
Stevens:
Yes.
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Well, this post could go on for ever, but let me just add that Emma has a few new films coming out. She is Agent O in
Men in Black 3, the voice of Queen Elinor in
Brave, Lady Eastlake in
Effie among others. So...any other fans of ET? Any Emma Thompson films you would like to add?
"I 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."
