Emily Mortimer Quotes

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

Good, Mother, Proud

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

Women, Amazing, Beautiful

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, Dad, Beautiful

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

Big, Everyone, Breakfast

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

Life, Girl, Homework

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, Lives, Everybody

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

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

Early, Optimistic, Wake

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

Home, Dad, Spring

I want to discover more things about acting.
Emily Mortimer

Acting, Discover

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

Become, American, Tax

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

Husband, Children, Down

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

Nature, Optimist

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

Life, Experience, Theatre

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

Yourself, Find, Dangerous

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

Beauty, End, Universe

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

Time, Miss, Partly

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

Love, Rock, Kid

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

Time, Yourself, Bad

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

Life, Sad, Cool

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, Through, Getting

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.
Emily Mortimer

Yourself, Boring, Grow

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

Yourself, Sick, Rather

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

School, Writing, Bit

I borrowed my friend's 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

Car, Husband, True

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Nationality: British

Born: December 1, 1971

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