Emma Thompson Quotes

English - Actress Born: April 15, 1959

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Family Communication Small Problem

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

Work Think Problem Charity

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

Myself Death Me Face

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

Life Daily Daily Life Stand

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

Morning Daughter Light Tea

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

Face You Someone Satisfaction

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Death People Difficult Things

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

Good You Sometimes Need

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Heart Age Broken Moving On

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

Women Food You Human Rights

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Wish Say Human Like

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Learning Goals Parenting Space

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

Children Me End Watch

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

Famous Know Out Like

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Myself Past Care Seriously

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

Culture Live People Community

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

Change Communication Think Start

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

Children Advice Need Half

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Never Because Technique Any

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Work Day People Think

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Hate Together Enjoy Way

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

Family Friend Good Man

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.

Work People Think Rich

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

Live People Think Understand

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Life Knowledge Think World

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

Woman Feel Appearance More

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