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The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.
Emily Blunt
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I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.
Emily Blunt
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I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.
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When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
Emily Blunt
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My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And, I'm a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it's more fun for me, actually.
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The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.
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It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.
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I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.
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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
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There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
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I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.
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Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.
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I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We actors do get to do it. We have a job that allows for that. We have an outlet for it.
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It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.
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I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink and I hated fairies. I only liked hanging out with boys. I remember throwing a tantrum if my mum put me in pink. I wasn't a particularly girly girl.
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If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.
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Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
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I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.
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Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.
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I'm kind of effectively bipolar.
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I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.
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I really asked myself, “Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?” That’s what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.
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I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.
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It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
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It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.
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I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.
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You can go at the premiere it's at Disneyland.
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With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
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I would love to be on Broadway!
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I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.
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If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.
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People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.
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It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.
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I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
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I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
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I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.
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I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.
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Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.
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My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
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I'm such a diva on set.
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I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.
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I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
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You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.
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I'm with someone who makes me incredibly happy. I'm not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that marriage takes the romance out of things. I think it gets better, it deepens. I love being a wife. We have a blast.
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