#real

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#because #happened #people #power #realized

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life! ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#because #behind #character #cool #could

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#banging #because #boring #crap #even

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#always #amount #because #disappointing #effort

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#certain #certain extent #doing #extent #half

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 was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#always #amazing #being #confident #cool

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'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#children #conferences #courage #draw #go

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