#elf

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#doing #eating #enjoyable #feel #going

I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think,'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bore #comedy #definitely #different #done

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#because #being #come #end #film

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!' ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #bites #chill #chill out #dinner

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#been #big #career #childhood #constantly

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#after #another #anyone #anything #awful

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#because #bites #dangerous #find #much

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad #being #boring #exposing #risk

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. ↗

— John Mortimer

#life #milk #modern #shelf #shelf life

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#continually #love #make #many #melt