A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all theyre thinking about is how they look. – Emma Thompson
I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think theres some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. – Emma Thompson
And its absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating – and the levels of the communication that Ive seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why dont we have that here? – Emma Thompson
The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people – which I dont ever want to do… So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, its profoundly enjoyable. – Emma Thompson
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups detat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle. – Jo Nesbo