Emma Thompson Quotes

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

Emma Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 15, 1959

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FatherMeThinkYouOutHigh

Every time my name is called, I get so many cheers, standing ovations, and a lot of hands are being clapped.

Jimmy Butler

TimeNameHandsCheersStandingGet

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

John Coltrane

GoodMusicPeopleFreeHelpYou

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls

MenDemocracyDeadEqualLastRank

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

Matt Mullenweg

LiveAloneWorldCannotCharacters

At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.

John Searles

AgeMenWomanLookHerGet

Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.

Roy Evans

WillNextUnitedManchester United

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Russell Banks

LifeWritingMy LifeNowPaintBeen

I was cold-calling agents when I was, like, 9 years old, and I was like, 'Mom, I need this thing called a headshot.'

Matt Bomer

MomOldNeedYearsLikeThing

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

Louis Pasteur

SimpleGenerationWillNeverRecover

Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.

Debbie Reynolds

MeUnhappySomeoneDramaPlaying

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Christian Bale

PeopleMeFeelSomeoneAttention

Wes Anderson is a perfectionist, so you have to just be ready to try it this way, try it this way, try it that way, and then try it this way. And then, once you think you've got it all and it's done, then you're going to be called back in two or three months so you can try it that way and try it this way. You've got to give him all of it.

Courtney B. Vance

ThinkYouBackReadyDoneThree

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