top of page
.png){kind=small}
"What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Trying quotes
"On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture."
"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."
"I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image."
"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."
"I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying."
"We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously."
Explore more quotes by Emma Thompson
"I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs."
"I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments."
"But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me."
"A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community."
"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."
"Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals."
"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap."
"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."
"My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman."
bottom of page