A biography for Emily Hampshirehasn’t been written yet.
“I'm so terrible with holiday shopping. I want to get something truly incredible for everyone on my list. But, in the end I end up with nothing at all.”
“I've come to learn it's a luxury to be a sort of blue collar celebrity in Canada. It makes you more humble.”
“I've been lucky to find character parts that are leads as well.”
“I once had those really short Angelina Jolie in 'Girl, Interrupted' bangs - and that was a mistake for me.”
“In Canada, you do smaller movies that maybe nobody sees, but you get to do bigger, better parts.”
“The Winnipeg cold is different than anything I have ever experienced.”
“When you live with someone, it pays to buy them a gift that you would love to have around the house.”
“In my own life, I've gotten more confident with saying things that are true.”
“I'm always looking for new projects.”
“I'm so bad at dancing that I've actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That's how bad my dancing is.”
“I try to play whole, recognizable human beings.”
“When you're working as an actor when you're younger, or even when you're older, it's carney life. You go from one show to the other and you make these quick makeshift families.”
“I definitely wouldn't want an unhappy wife, that's for sure.”
“I never leave the house.”
“As a kid, I used to love going to the cabane a sucre in Montreal to go sugaring off with our school. Sleigh rides, hot maple syrup, pour that syrup on snow and you got yourself some taffy. Need I say more?”
“I sometimes fantasize about being an old lady, when you can say the truth that everyone else is thinking and no one is saying.”
“I've been an actor since I was 12 and my dream role is Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.' What's crazy is that I'm not a great singer or dancer but I'll commit.”
“I'd love to make a movie and star in it with all my friends.”
“Every party I do go to, all I'm thinking about is ways to improve it.”
“A lot of the time you have older writers who think that every teenager says 'dude' all the time.”