Emma Thompson Biography

On herself:

“I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.”

“My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.”

“I’ve never thought of myself as vain.”

“I am much more comfortable now with being a woman than I was in my twenties.”

On acting:

“Acting simply cannot be about how you look. It would be very difficult to make a film where you have to be beautiful in every shot. You have to put so much effort into it; you have to hold your head at particular angles, put the light in a certain way, and I don’t like acting like that. I like to act unconscious of how I look.”

“I’ve realised that in all great stories, even if there’s a happily-ever-after ending, there’s something sad.”

Others:

“Liam Neeson, quite frankly, is sex on legs. Always has been.”

“Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we’ve stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.”