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I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die? ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#avoid #before #born #carry #child

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 is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#almost #being #brilliant #experience #forced

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

— Emily Mortimer

#because #bites #dangerous #find #much

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#day #death #denial #die #enough

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#exotic #feel #great #i #i feel

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad thing #dangerous #get #good #good people

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. ↗

— Frederick Tennyson

#be the first #echoes #first #forever #hath

The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #because #doing #ever #feel

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come