Emily Mortimer quotes

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Religious #Thinking #Theatre

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Beauty #Beautiful #Girl

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Mother #Proud #Good Mother

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Jobs #Fun #Years

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Friendship #Running #Giving

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
-- Emily Mortimer

#Character #Tangible #Way

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!
-- Emily Mortimer

#Real #Character #Way

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Risk #Actors #Unattractive

When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Running #Kids #Rocks

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Attention #Misery #Enough

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Growing Up #Thinking #People

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Drinking #School #Technology

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Fire #Lines #Brilliant

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Exercise #People #Pills

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Writing #School #Dancer

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Effort #Tickets #Disappointing

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Depressing #Mean #Hair

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Sound #Doe #Helping

The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Missing #More Time #Feels

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Los Angeles #Ends #Parlor

I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Optimistic #Thinking #Levels

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Eggs #Meals #Breakfast

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Vanity #Mcdonalds #Sick

I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Beautiful #Character #Thinking

I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Thinking #Brain #Acting

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Girl #Dancing #Kitsch

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Mean #Secret #Guilt

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Girl #Littles #Pretentious

I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Optimistic #Wake Up

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Dad #Spring #Home

I want to discover more things about acting.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Acting #Want

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Cynical #Citizens #Inheritance

I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Children #Husband #Eight

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Thinking #Optimist

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Talking #Finding Yourself #Sound

I borrowed my friends car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Husband #Car #Three