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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

I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#between #children #citizen #down #dual

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#am #because #better #drawn #i

I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#always #anticipating #basic #being #difficult

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#always #because #complaining #depressing #film

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