Top 25 Emily Berrington Quotes

Luckily, most days filming, for me, have involved a bit of a workout, too.

There’s a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I’ve certainly become more and more aware of that.

I really enjoy working with people who have come into this industry for what I think are really admirable reasons. People who really want to tell brilliant stories and do it in the most effective way possible.

When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.

I read recently that someone set up a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots in America. The idea being that if something robotic can have responsibilities then it should also have rights.

I’m old and boring in London and get really tired around midnight. But in Berlin, I had this new lease of life because there’s something electric about the place.

I always thought that at the very time of your life when you want to be cool and sexy and fascinating, you are none of those things. You are a hormonal muddle in your school uniform sitting in double science looking at a boy who you know will never notice you. That was definitely me; I was so shy at school.

I will be very sad if I ever get to the point where I think, ‘Oh no, another dress from Armani.’ I want to be still screaming my head off when it arrives.

I was really into ’24’ at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have been spent at the library. If you could have told me then I would be in it one day, I’d have hit the roof.

A standard day usually starts very early – 4.30 A.M. pick-ups and in the make-up chair by 5.30.

As far as I’m aware, you can’t tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don’t get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of ’24’ that one day I wouldn’t need that geography degree and I’d actually be in ’24,’ I’d have been quite pleased, I think.

I am more on the side of humans than robots.

I literally can’t get anywhere now without the map on my phone. I used to use an A-Z when I first came to London, and now I really struggle because there’s no dot to show where I am. And I think that part of my brain doesn’t work any more.

I imagine if you’re one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what’s possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something’s possible it doesn’t mean it’s going to be good to us.

I’ve been reading a lot about what the Internet does to our brains.

I never thought I’d end up doing comedy, but actually, it’s been something I’ve really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy’s naughty at school, he’s a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl’s naughty, she’s trouble.

You don’t want to disappoint, or feel like you’re trying to recreate the magic of something.

I worry that if you see a row of self-checkouts, you think, ‘That all used to be jobs and real people.’

I literally can’t talk without moving hands.

I do think I have a lesser ability to remember facts and names than I have done previously, because you never have to store them; you just look them up again. I could make the same recipe 15 times, but I’ll never, ever remember how to make it because I’ll just look it up.

You meet people and go, ‘We’re going to be friends forever!’ then you get home and can’t even remember their name.

I’ve taken that with me since working with him; in order to be William Hurt, you have use every moment like he does.