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Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Core Different Domestic Dream Everything Friend Get Glamour Intense Life Lovely Madam Me Never Posh Put Puts Real Real Life Sometimes Stylist Things Very

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It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Able Between Daughter Different Different World Fault Feed Gap Governments Lucky Poor Rich Thinking Up Wake Wake Up Want Where World

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We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: About Because Difficult Easier Film Got Happiness Jokes Looking Lot Lots Make More Much Our People Sad Side Time

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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: About Beginning Differently End Feel Film How Much Perfection Someone You

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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.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Acting Aids Because Community Culture Either Friends Gay Gay Community Hiv Instance Live Lost Lot New New York Origin Our People World York

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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?

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Absolutely Area Behaviour Change Communicating Communication Demands Female Ground Here High Levels Lot Male Poor Responses Seen Sexual Start Think True Very Why I Think

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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.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Badly Calm Crisis Death Difficult Face Failed Feel Find Forgive Get Hurt Hysterical Lose Masochistic May Me Myself Temper Things Which I Feel I Can

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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.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Audiences Children Clap End Me Most Shout Struck Until Watch Wonderful

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

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Advice Children Ear Half Just Listened Much Need Really

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

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Any Because Learnt Never Technique

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actress

Born: April 15th, 1959

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