Words matter. These are the best Emily Watson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It’s like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can’t take that lightly.
In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn’t affect me; I’d just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
I’ve always been creative, I think.
I have to be a lot more calculating because I’m a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I’m generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it’s tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
Yeah, a lot of people think I’ll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.
Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that’s gonna surprise me.
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.
I sometimes feel like it’s difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.
You have to play the logic of a character.
I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people’s lives.
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.
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.
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.
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.
