A biography for Emma Thompsonhasn’t been written yet.
“אנשים צעירים יעסקו במין, אם תרצו ואם לאו.”
“הגרועה שבתכונותיי היא חוסר סבלנות.”
“אני אוהבת אנשים שהתנסו בסבל; הם טובים יותר.”
“אני שונאת את הדרך שבה כוחות השוק מפרידים בינינו על פי מאפיינים דמוגרפיים, כדי למכור לנו דברים מסוימים.”
“אין לי טכניקה משום שמעולם למדתי אותה.”
“ילדים אינם זקוקים לעצות, אלא לכך שיקשיבו להם באוזן מלאה ולא בחצי אוזן.”
“ילדים מהווים את קהל הצופים הנפלא ביותר.”
“כאשר אני מאבדת את עשתונותיי, מאוד קשה לי לסלוח לעצמי; אני מרגישה כי נכשלתי.”
“נראה לי כי כל בעיה משפחתית, תהיה גדולה או קטנה, מתחילה תמיד בגלל הידברות רעה; מישהו אינו מקשיב.”
“Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.”
“And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?”
“Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.”
“A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.”
“I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.”
“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.”
“We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.”
“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.”
“I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.”
“Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.”
“I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.”