I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
EMMA THOMPSON Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...
EMMA THOMPSON If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not t...
EMMA THOMPSON Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so s...
EMMA THOMPSON My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heel...
EMMA THOMPSON If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you...
EMMA THOMPSON I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but...
EMMA THOMPSON We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
EMMA THOMPSON There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true....
EMMA THOMPSON Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend...
EMMA THOMPSON It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I thi...
EMMA THOMPSON I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of v...
EMMA THOMPSON I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and deat...
EMMA THOMPSON I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just...
EMMA THOMPSON Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - ...
EMMA THOMPSON British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are g...
EMMA THOMPSON I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that c...
EMMA THOMPSON This whole thing is like a cross between a very severe virus and getting married.
EMMA THOMPSON I would say to people, for heaven's sake, if you're going to have kids you've got to put the work an...
EMMA THOMPSON Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who ha...
EMMA THOMPSON My worst quality is impatience.
EMMA THOMPSON But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be c...
EMMA THOMPSON Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and liste...
EMMA THOMPSON Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings wh...
EMMA THOMPSON [Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to n...
EMMA THOMPSON If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commer...
EMMA THOMPSON I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in...
EMMA THOMPSON Every name I think of gets pooh-poohed by my partner, the young Mr. Greg Wise, ... I've sort of give...
EMMA THOMPSON I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs wavi...
EMMA THOMPSON Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the v...
EMMA THOMPSON Very nice lady served us drinks in hotel and was followed in by a cat. We all crooned at it. Alan [R...
EMMA THOMPSON Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] fo...
EMMA THOMPSON It's lovely to be here, and at least it's, you know, no effort.
EMMA THOMPSON The gap was so long because it needed to be. It took that time - that's the time it took,
EMMA THOMPSON If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficul...
EMMA THOMPSON I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs wavi...
EMMA THOMPSON ... I would destroy and remove the monetary system.
EMMA THOMPSON There is a lot of interest in post office art today, I think people are appreciating what we have, ....
EMMA THOMPSON I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be intere...
EMMA THOMPSON It took them longer to get me dolled up for Elinor in Sense And Sensibility because it took so long ...
EMMA THOMPSON It was a hard time but you have to get on with things.You can't wander around miserable.
EMMA THOMPSON Let's see how this one goes, but I have one up my sleeve if we think that people want it.
EMMA THOMPSON I've been toying with names like Winston and Clementine, but I don't think they're going to wash,
EMMA THOMPSON Parents always think it's the kids' fault. If they're naughty, it's the kids' fault. Not true! Child...
EMMA THOMPSON They were like, 'You can't have that. It's too expensive.' I was like, 'OK, 29.' Then I slowly went ...
EMMA THOMPSON (Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of EMMA THOMPSON I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really...
EMMA THOMPSON I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I&...
EMMA THOMPSON Sense and Sensibility signs litter Devon -- arrows with S & S on. Whenever Ang [Le...
EMMA THOMPSON I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Mo...
EMMA THOMPSON I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel ab...
EMMA THOMPSON Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' wa...
EMMA THOMPSON Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.
Photograph...
EMMA THOMPSON She was the only one that didn't react to me when I was in Nanny mode.
EMMA THOMPSON Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been aske...
EMMA THOMPSON I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal ...
EMMA THOMPSON And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change ...
EMMA THOMPSON Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not ne...
EMMA THOMPSON Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'...
EMMA THOMPSON My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about bein...
EMMA THOMPSON Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half...
EMMA THOMPSON You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
EMMA THOMPSON Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone is...
EMMA THOMPSON Piracy is our only option.
EMMA THOMPSON I think I am comfortable with being disappointed. And I think I am angry at you for taking that away...
KATE WALKER (AKA EMMA THOMPSON) I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
EMMA ROBERTS Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
EMMA BULL I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most ama...
EMMA ROBERTS I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink.
EMMA BUNTON Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested...
EMMA GOLDMAN Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is you...
EMMA WATSON We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doi...
EMMA WATSON I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
EMMA WATSON If not me, who? If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell...
EMMA WATSON It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I�...
EMMA WATSON I am willing to be seen.
I am willing to speak up.
I am willing to keep going.
I am...
EMMA WATSON It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have fai...
EMMA WATSON I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.
EMMA WATSON Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be wh...
EMMA WATSON The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.
EMMA WATSON What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
EMMA WATSON I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
EMMA WATSON I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willi...
EMMA WATSON I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and...
EMMA WATSON If not me, who?
If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing thin...
EMMA WATSON I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have ama...
EMMA CAULFIELD I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an ...
EMMA WATSON Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his ...
EMMA WILLARD I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people ...
EMMA WATSON The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think ...
EMMA FORREST I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would...
EMMA STONE His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufactu...
EMMA WILLARD In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discont...
EMMA GOLDMAN Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...
EMMA GOLDMAN If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can ca...
EMMA ROBERTS I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.
EMMA WATSON Bandwagon and all that it is is such a huge passion of mine. We're already bouncing around ideas...
EMMA CAULFIELD I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces....
EMMA STONE I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I c...
EMMA STONE I want freedom, the right to self expression, everybodys right to beautiful radiant things. Anarchis...
EMMA GOLDMAN The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed a...
EMMA MCLAUGHLIN It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulat...
EMMA GOLDMAN Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...
EMMA GOLDMAN If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
EMMA GOLDMAN Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-r...
EMMA GOLDMAN I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
EMMA GOLDMAN You can’t get a reaction from someone who doesn’t give a shit.
EMMA CHASE ... where there's one there's ten.'
That's crazy math.
EMMA DONOGHUE Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
EMMA DONOGHUE She talks like you. It’s not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag...
EMMA CHASE I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the art...
EMMA CLINE It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzi...
EMMA GOLDMAN In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscen...
EMMA GOLDMAN Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested...
EMMA GOLDMAN Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
...
EMMA LAZARUS No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refus...
EMMA LAZARUS Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrib...
EMMA GOLDMAN Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
EMMA GOLDMAN No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
EMMA GOLDMAN The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vit...
EMMA GOLDMAN Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
EMMA GOLDMAN Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King...
EMMA GOLDMAN When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
EMMA GOLDMAN Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elo...
EMMA GOLDMAN The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the ...
EMMA GOLDMAN The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And y...
EMMA CARLETON Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possib...
EMMA GOLDMAN Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
EMMA GOLDMAN To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and wi...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains t...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the lib...
EMMA GOLDMAN The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...
EMMA GOLDMAN It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a mora...
EMMA GOLDMAN We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people ...
EMMA BUNTON Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched t...
EMMA GOLDMAN No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be stron...
EMMA WATSON As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I ev...
EMMA WATSON I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House...
EMMA STONE We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But...
EMMA BUNTON It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contac...
EMMA WATSON A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear t...
EMMA ORCZY My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a...
EMMA WATSON On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marri...
EMMA GOLDMAN I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.
EMMA STONE I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people wh...
EMMA WATSON I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.
EMMA STONE Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while ...
EMMA ISHTA I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
EMMA GOLDMAN Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world...
EMMA GOLDMAN Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terribl...
EMMA GOLDMAN The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...
EMMA GOLDMAN Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
EMMA GOLDMAN When we can't dream any longer we die.
EMMA GOLDMAN The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
EMMA GOLDMAN One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing...
EMMA GOLDMAN If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction t...
EMMA GOLDMAN If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
EMMA GOLDMAN The most violent element in society is ignorance.
EMMA GOLDMAN The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the ...
EMMA GOLDMAN If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
EMMA GOLDMAN No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong a...
EMMA GOLDMAN I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
EMMA WATSON My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.
EMMA WATSON Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the w...
EMMA GOLDMAN Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
EMMA STONE It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person unt...
EMMA WATSON You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry,...
EMMA ROBERTS I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me f...
EMMA WATSON I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it...
EMMA WATSON I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don'...
EMMA WATSON If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.
EMMA WATSON I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid ...
EMMA WATSON I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.
EMMA WATSON It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because ...
EMMA WATSON I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
EMMA WATSON I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make ...
EMMA WATSON I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.
EMMA WATSON I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my...
EMMA WATSON I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up do...
EMMA WATSON I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I wan...
EMMA WATSON I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a ma...
EMMA WATSON I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.
EMMA WATSON I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure ...
EMMA WATSON I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to ...
EMMA WATSON It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Ha...
EMMA WATSON But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone ca...
EMMA WATSON I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
EMMA WATSON All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.
EMMA WATSON I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
EMMA WATSON I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been ...
EMMA TENNANT I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or atten...
EMMA WATSON Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enri...
EMMA GOLDMAN We all have to get our hope from somewhere, and if getting lost between the pages of a deep book giv...
EMMA HART