Emily Mortimer Quotes

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Emily Mortimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 1, 1971

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I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

Jim Caviezel

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I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

Joe Wurzelbacher

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I will not say anything negative about the president of the United States. I don't do that. And I don't allow my children to do that.

Jerry Lewis

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I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

Jennifer Nettles

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'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on. That was an important step in my career at ILM.

John Knoll

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Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to feign the anonymity which I had before 'O.J.'

Sterling K. Brown

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It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

Rosanna Arquette

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I auditioned for 'Loving' two years before we started shooting, so in the hopes that I would be playing Mildred, I watched it again. Also it's one of the best documentaries I've seen. I found this couple interminably fascinating; even if I didn't get the part, I just wanted to know more about them and their story.

Ruth Negga

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Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

Mo Ibrahim

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I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.

Jasper Carrott

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Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

Jon Oringer

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When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.

Johnny Depp

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