Quotes by Emily Mortimer

Emily Mortimer

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I’m afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

Character

Real

Way

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it’s a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I’m doing!

Character

Tangible

Way

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone – bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.

Breakfast

Eggs

Meals

Every time you start a new job, you’re starting from the beginning again and it’s terrifying. And you feel like you’re going to be fired and told to go home and never to darken the doors of these people ever again.

Doors

Home

Jobs

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

Good Mother

Mother

Proud

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.

Beautiful

Character

Thinking

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me ‘Em’ and shout across the bar, ‘Em, what are you drinking?’ after the show.

Drinking

School

Technology

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

Doe

Helping

Sound

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn’t do very much else.

Disappointing

Effort

Tickets

I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we’re cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.

East London

Inspiration

Real

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Beautiful

Beauty

Brain

Breakfast

Brilliant

Capable

Character

Children

Citizens

Comedy

Confusion

Cop

Crazy

Cynical

Dad

Depressing

Different

Disappointing

Doe

Done

Doors

Drama

Dream

Drinking

East London

Effort

Eggs

Exercise

Feels

Fire

Friday

Fun

Girl

Good Mother

Growing Up

Hair

Hate

Helpful

Helping

Home

Inheritance

Inspiration

Jobs

Kids

Levels

Lines

Long

Meals

Mean

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Quotes by Emily Mortimer

Emily Mortimer

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I’m afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it’s a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I’m doing!

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone – bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.

Every time you start a new job, you’re starting from the beginning again and it’s terrifying. And you feel like you’re going to be fired and told to go home and never to darken the doors of these people ever again.

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me ‘Em’ and shout across the bar, ‘Em, what are you drinking?’ after the show.

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn’t do very much else.

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