Emily Mortimer Quotes

I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.

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• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Win

• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Hard
  • Survival
  • Reasons

• My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Believe
  • She
  • Character

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • May
  • Want

• No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • May
  • Think

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Accent
  • Classes

• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Attention
  • Perfect
  • Health

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Color
  • Matter
  • Taste

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Successful

• When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • You
  • Peace

• The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Challenge
  • Calm

• We derive confidence as women from what we wear.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Women
  • Confidence

• A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Glasses

• People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • People
  • Band
  • Stage

• I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing