Emily Mortimer quotes

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it. (Emily Mortimer)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites. View quote
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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! View quote
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Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want to discover more things about acting. View quote
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I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic. (Emily Mortimer)
I must have been a really pretentious little girl. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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