Emily Watson Quotes
"You have to play the logic of a character."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Character, Logic, Play)
"Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me."
- Emily Watson
(Related: People)
"When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Time, Life, Decision, Acting, Drama, School, Thinking)
"When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Home, Time)
"The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Love, Film, Light, Walking, World)
"My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship."
- Emily Watson
(Related: People, Character, Open)
"It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Anxiety, Job, Theatre)
"I've always been creative, I think."
- Emily Watson
"And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing."
- Emily Watson
"I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Character, Silence)
"I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Books, Television)
"I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Pressure, Will)
"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."
- Emily Watson
(Related: People)
"I always think I am going to do my best."
- Emily Watson
"During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Home)
"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Actors)
"I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager."
- Emily Watson
"My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world."
- Emily Watson
(Related: HusbFilm, Nothing, World)