Emma Thompson Quotes

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.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Horror. I can't manage it. I become-well-horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect.

When asked, "Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with?" - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul)

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength - the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.