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Emily Mortimer Biography

Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 1 December 1971) is an English actress and screenwriter. She began acting in stage productions, and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing roles in Match Point (2005), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Chaos Theory (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Hugo (2011), and the HBO series The Newsroom.

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'Leonie' did get made and it was an extremely wonderful experience. I got to travel the world. I filmed for 6 months - 3 months in New Orleans and 3 months in Japan.

Experience, Extremely, Japan, New Orleans, World

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.

Die, Exercise, Happen, Lots, People, Pills

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

Good, Good Mother, Mother, Proud

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.

Children, Citizen, Eight, Husband, Passports, Whenever

I had watched Alfie, but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with. I guess after a lifetime of doing it, you know what you're doing. He's incredibly uncomplaining, undemanding.

Actors, Caine, Fabulous, Lifetime, Professional

I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

Acting, Brain, Dues, Paid, Think, Thinking

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U. S.

Avoid, Become, Citizens, Cynical, Inheritance, Reasons

It's censorship, really. I don't see why it's not okay for somebody under the age of 17 watch someone smoking when they can watch someone have their brains blown out? My son and I were watching an ad on the television the other day. And it said, "Rated R. " He said, "What does 'rated R' mean?" I said, "God, I don't know. You can't watch it unless you're over a certain age. "

Mean, Rated, Smoking, Son, Television

There's a whole world of bad TV that's along similar themes - the cop drama.

Cop, Drama, World

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

Acting, Children, Job, Profession

There were moments where I was being kicked in the stomach, and even though I had this brace on to protect me, I still had to prepare myself for it. You can't be relaxed when that's happening. You have to brace your muscles. I can remember thinking as it was about to happen "Wasn't that how Houdini died?" I think it was.

Died, Moments, Muscles, Remember, Thinking

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

Actors, Boring, Exposing, Risk, Time, Unattractive

There's something helpful about the fast pace of a TV set where everything has to be finished by the end of the week. You have to finish the episode; it doesn't matter how long you have to go on Friday night, but you have to get it done.

Friday, Night, Long, Helpful, Finish

The harder the circumstances under which you're making a movie, generally the better the friends you make. You're far away from home and so you're kind of lonely, and you end up all gravitating towards each other and the bar every night. It tends to be inversely proportionate to the comfort level on the movie, how close you become to everybody.

Home, Lonely, Making, Night

If there's any plan or scheme on my part, it's subconscious. Whatever I do tends to be very different from the thing I did last. You're terrified of boring either yourself or anyone else. It's always attractive if it feels like something that you haven't done before. I generally tend to be better, I think, when I'm terrified out of my wits.

Different, Done, Feels, Tends, Thinking

It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set. " It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine]and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.

Character, Characters, Crazy, God, Thinking, Work

I want to discover more things about acting.

Acting, Discover, Things, Want

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

Girl, Littles, Pretentious

It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be funny and failing is about the most embarrassing thing you can do.

Comedy, Failing, Humiliation, Thing, Trying

Every time you start a new job, you're starting from the beginning again and it's terrifying. And you feel like you're going to be fired and told to go home and never to darken the doors of these people ever again.

Doors, Home, Job, Jobs, Start, Starting

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