Emily Mortimer Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Attention, Misery, Enough

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

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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 Mortimer

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

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

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Exercise, People, Pills

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• My take on people and on the characters I play in Transsiberian, the role you're looking for, is that everybody is more than one thing. We're many things, all of us, and there are times when we are capable of great levity and jolliness and then there are times when the opposite is true.

  Emily Mortimer

  Character, People, Capable

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Risk, Actors, Unattractive

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Optimistic, Thinking, Levels

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Eggs, Meals, Breakfast

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• There's a whole world of bad TV that's along similar themes - the cop drama.

  Emily Mortimer

  Drama, World, Cop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Vanity, Mcdonalds, Sick

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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 Mortimer

  Thinking, Brain, Acting

  "'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 Mortimer

  Girl, Dancing, Kitsch

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

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• There's something helpful about the fast pace of a TV set where everything has to be finished by the end of the week. You have to finish the episode; it doesn't matter how long you have to go on Friday night, but you have to get it done.

  Emily Mortimer

  Friday, Night, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 Mortimer

  Mean, Secret, Guilt

  "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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Girl, Littles, Pretentious

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

  Emily Mortimer

  Optimistic, Up Early, Wake Up

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• Despite being extremely professional, Michael Caine has a giggle which was lethal for me because once you catch his eyes, once you realize the other person is a giggler too, it's curtains.

  Emily Mortimer

  Eye, Realizing, Curtains

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to discover more things about acting.

  Emily Mortimer

  Acting, Want

  "'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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Cynical, Citizens, Inheritance

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Children, Husband, Eight

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• I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

  Emily Mortimer

  Children, Acting, Profession

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Missing, More Time, Feels

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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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Running, Kids, Rocks

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• I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

  Emily Mortimer

  Mother, Proud, Good Mother

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• I had watched 'Alfie,' but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with. I guess after a lifetime of doing it, you know what you're doing. He's incredibly uncomplaining, undemanding.

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  Fabulous, Actors, Lifetime

  Source: collider.com

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• The ratings thing is the real issue. It really hurts movies. For example, in Redbelt, I smoked. The whole plot of my character was based on the fact that I was a smoker. And then they discovered that just by having someone smoking in the movie, it immediately makes the rating an R. So they had to cut out every shot where I had a cigarette in my hand and it totally affected the performance. That was very frustrating to David Mamet as well. I can remember him saying, "It's a nightmare."

  Emily Mortimer

  Hurt, Real, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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