Quotes by Emma Thompson

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community. (Emma Thompson)

And its 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)

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use. (Emma Thompson)

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. (Emma Thompson)

Children are the most wonderful audiences. Whats struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap. (Emma Thompson)

I don't have technique because I never learnt any. (Emma Thompson)

I have had lots of friends whove been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. (Emma Thompson)

I think if you took charities and NGOs out of the mix, certainly in developing countries, you would find that there would be huge trouble immediately. (Emma Thompson)

I think the point about ActionAid is what its asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. (Emma Thompson)

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. (Emma Thompson)