Emma Thompson Movie Quotes

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

Emma Thompson

#2. The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

Bill Gates

#3. The difference between poverty and prosperity is the mindset of living out of necessity instead of possibility.

Farshad Asl

#4. But don't you understand?' she said urgently. 'The demon was hiding all the way down in sublevel three.

Edward Cox

#5. Yes, I know," he said, impatient. "I am going to rend you from limb to limb. Someday. When I feel like it. In the meantime, you will not faint, you will get warm, and you will stop being distressed." His nostrils pinched. "I don't like how it smells.

Thea Harrison

#6. It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

Emma Thompson

#7. This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Holly Black

#8. Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.
Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less
um
'
Hugh: 'Pained?

Emma Thompson

#9. 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

Joe Lieberman

#10. During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Emma Thompson

#11. Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Arthur Erickson

#12. Sense and Sensibility signs litter Devon
arrows with S & S on. Whenever Ang [Lee] sees a B & B sign he thinks it's for another movie.

Emma Thompson

#13. I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B.

Chloe Hooper

#14. Its amazing to contemplate what human mind is capable of, incredible functionality, specialty of describing something beautifully without even experiencing called the work of imagination, carries us to a world we have never been before.

Pushpa Rana

#15. We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

John Steinbeck

#16. I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

Tammy Blanchard

#17. It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

Emma Thompson

#18. Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Epicurus

#19. Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Walter Lippmann