Emily Watson Actress Quotations

I have a sort of unspoken principle, which is that I don't want to let it change me so that I treat people badly, or anything like that.

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

I always think I am going to do my best.

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.

The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.

I think Silence of the Lambs was a great film and when somebody does that kind of suspense thing, with that much restraint, it's impressive.

I thought it was time to jump into that Hollywood mainstream and see what the temperature was. And it was warmer than I expected.

I wanted to do something artistic with my life but I didn't think I wanted to be an actor, so I went to university and majored in English literature.

But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

I'm lucky I don't do the kind of work where the main thing is that you're the girl and you look gorgeous. I don't look like that. I'm a funny-looking.

I had done theater at school and really enjoyed it. I got a whiff of that sense of excitement that goes with it when I did school plays.