Emily Mortimer quotes
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“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 MortimerSource : "Emily Mortimer: 'Secrets are a part of all of our lives'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2010.
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“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 MortimerSource : "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.
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“I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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!”
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“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 MortimerSource : "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.
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“You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 MortimerSource : "Real Time With Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch". Interview with Azeen Ghorayshi, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2012.
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“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 MortimerSource : "Woman on the verge" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.
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“You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.”
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“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.”
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“Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.”
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“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.”
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“Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 MortimerSource : "'Sometimes I think this is so undignified'". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2010.
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“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 MortimerSource : "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.
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“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 MortimerSource : "Emily Mortimer: 'Secrets are a part of all of our lives'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2010.
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“I must have been a really pretentious little girl.”
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“I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.”
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“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.”
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“I want to discover more things about acting.”
-- Emily MortimerSource : "'Sometimes I think this is so undignified'". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2010.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.”
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“It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.”
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“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.”
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