The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not. Emma Thompson More Quotes by Emma Thompson More Quotes From Emma Thompson This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls! Emma Thompson daughtermothermorning I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. Emma Thompson best-effortmotherhoodthinking Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am. Emma Thompson celebrationlaughterfailing There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys. Emma Thompson animalchildrenthinking 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? Emma Thompson communicationchangethinking The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use Emma Thompson condom-usereligiouseducation The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. Emma Thompson hivdifferentimportant Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort. Emma Thompson effortmindlooks You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women. Emma Thompson awfultwopeople We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. Emma Thompson filmsidespeople I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups. Emma Thompson groupsdifferentwriting I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them. Emma Thompson libertarianatheistbelieve I don't have technique because I never learnt any. Emma Thompson technique Why do we wear them? They're so painful. Emma Thompson heelshigh-heelspainful The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best. Emma Thompson mommotherinspiring We all need somewhere where we feel safe Emma Thompson safefeelsneeds Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything. Emma Thompson realdreamhome I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it. Emma Thompson daughterhelping-othersbaby It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. Emma Thompson gapstyrantsthinking I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying. Emma Thompson warcountrythinking
