Emily Mortimer Quotes

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

Emily Mortimer

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Happy
  • Take
  • Consequences

• I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Story

• I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Play
  • Proud
  • Prejudice

• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Character
  • Hair
  • Warrior

• Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
  • Working
  • Sweat

• I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

  

  Yaphet Kotto
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Either

• At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Done
  • Thought

• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Red
  • Storm
  • Weapons

• Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Music
  • Education

• One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Good
  • Important
  • Practice

• When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Body

• I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Costume

• I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Parents

• The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bad
  • Amazing

• I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Paris

• There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Mind

• Composers combine notes, that's all.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

• She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Consciousness
  • Forced
  • Struggling

• I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Work
  • Single
  • Day

• This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church.

  

  John Calvin
  • Wish
  • Church
  • Learn

• My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • California

• It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

  

  Emily Mortimer