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 Mortimer

  Religious, Thinking, Theatre

  "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 Mortimer

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

  "Woman on the verge". Interview with 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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Fire, Lines, Brilliant

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• It's censorship, really. I don't see why it's not okay for somebody under the age of 17 watch someone smoking when they can watch someone have their brains blown out? My son and I were watching an ad on the television the other day. And it said, "Rated R." He said, "What does 'rated R' mean?" I said, "God, I don't know. You can't watch it unless you're over a certain age."

  Emily Mortimer

  Mean, Son, Smoking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 Mortimer

  Drinking, School, Technology

  "Woman on the verge" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• Every time you start a new job, you're starting from the beginning again and it's terrifying. And you feel like you're going to be fired and told to go home and never to darken the doors of these people ever again.

  Emily Mortimer

  Jobs, Home, Doors

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

  Emily Mortimer

  Talking, Finding Yourself, Sound

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• The harder the circumstances under which you're making a movie, generally the better the friends you make. You're far away from home and so you're kind of lonely, and you end up all gravitating towards each other and the bar every night. It tends to be inversely proportionate to the comfort level on the movie, how close you become to everybody.

  Emily Mortimer

  Lonely, Home, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

  Emily Mortimer

  Thinking, Optimist

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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 Mortimer

  Real, Character, Way

  "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

  Emily Mortimer

  Los Angeles, Ends, Parlor

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• You never in a million years thought that you would ever end up in a Woody Allen film even though that might be your dream, and there you are. Suddenly you've got one. But you're not playing the quintessential Woody Allen heroine, which is somebody that's full of self-doubt and heartbreakingly naïve. Chloe in Match Point was a nightmare in some ways and totally entitled, and felt like everything was going to be all right. Most of the women in Woody Allen films feel like everything's awful. I didn't understand what to do. But some of the confusion is helpful.

  Emily Mortimer

  Dream, Confusion, Helpful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Dad, Spring, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Beautiful, Character, Thinking

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• It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set." It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine] and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.

  Emily Mortimer

  Crazy, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be funny and failing is about the most embarrassing thing you can do.

  Emily Mortimer

  Trying, Comedy, Failing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Effort, Tickets, Disappointing

  "Woman on the verge" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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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!

  Emily Mortimer

  Character, Tangible, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Friendship, Running, Giving

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• I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

  Emily Mortimer

  Thinking, Tragedy, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Jobs, Fun, Years

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Husband, Car, Three

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Sound, Doe, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Writing, School, Dancer

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Depressing, Mean, Hair

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