3 December 2020 Emma Thompson The trouble is it’s very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they’re thinking about is how they look.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people – which I don’t ever want to do… So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it’s profoundly enjoyable.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson One is a child when one has a child. No one says, ‘You will never be the same again.’ Which is the truth! And we’re all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson I don’t think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there’s some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson We’ve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that’s easier. It’s much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson If you don’t want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson I understand what it’s like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, ‘She’s got her daughter she’s got her husband.’ Yeah, but she hasn’t got anyone else.
3 December 2020 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.
