In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Mots clés world actors appearances

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The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.

Sanford Meisner

Mots clés theater actors

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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.

Emma Thompson

Mots clés writers actors movies filming

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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

Emma Thompson

Mots clés language actors movies 19th-century improvisation filming

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Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

Emma Thompson

Mots clés liberation actors movies rock-and-roll posture filming historical-costume period-costume

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(On period costume posture coaching:)

"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Emma Thompson

Mots clés actors movies posture filming historical-costume period-costume

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Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.
Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'
Hugh: 'Pained?

Emma Thompson

Mots clés wit actors movies paparazzi repartee movie-stars

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I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

Emma Thompson

Mots clés characters jane-austen actors movies control-freaks filming elinor-dashwood

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Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England.

Emma Thompson

Mots clés sexuality morality prejudice actors movies identification expectations inhibitions prudishness dora-carrington

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Edward finds Elinor crying for her dead father, offers her his handkerchief and their love story commences. Ang [Lee] very anxious that we think about what we want to do. I'm very anxious not to do anything and certainly not to think about it.

Emma Thompson

Mots clés actors movies directors filming love-scenes

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