Top 40 Emily Hampshire Quotes

I’m a big fan of Charlie Day.

I actually never thought I wanted to do a series.

I’ve come to learn it’s a luxury to be a sort of blue collar celebrity in Canada. It makes you more humble.

I like to see the silver linings in things.

Maybe This Time’ is such a self-empowering song.

I’m so bad at dancing that I’ve actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That’s how bad my dancing is.

You’re always told in Canadian movies to make it look like the U.S. and people buy into the idea that that’s the only way it’ll work.

I’m a disaster and I’m super messy.

I’d love to make a movie and star in it with all my friends.

I once had those really short Angelina Jolie in ‘Girl, Interrupted’ bangs – and that was a mistake for me.

When you’re working as an actor when you’re younger, or even when you’re older, it’s carney life. You go from one show to the other and you make these quick makeshift families.

In my own life, I’ve gotten more confident with saying things that are true.

There’s not a lot of movies I’ve made that my dad can see.

Honestly, I think I have this narcolepsy thing with reading. I fall asleep when I’m reading. So, if I stay awake to read an entire script, I’m like, ‘Wow, I need to do this.’

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

I never leave the house.

I’ve been in this industry since I was 12 years old.

I like to shoot on location ’cause I can just immerse myself in the world of the movie.

I definitely wouldn’t want an unhappy wife, that’s for sure.

Most shows don’t know when they’re going to end. They just get canceled.

I’ve been lucky to find character parts that are leads as well.

You think of She-Hulk and muscles and stuff, but the person who’s behind it is just such a cool character.

I’m a bit fashion bipolar. I either really go for it or people think I’m a homeless person.

I feel like I am very welcome at TIFF and I think it’s because I’m Canadian and I’ve been there a bunch of times.

In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, ‘Emily plays well alone.’

When you live with someone, it pays to buy them a gift that you would love to have around the house.

To get – or not to get – bangs is a question that women struggle with all their life. I consider this question to be amongst those like, ‘What happens when we die? or ‘Is there life on other planets?’

I’m just really bad at selling anything I don’t actually use or like.

I’m always looking for new projects.

I like being part of a film scene where the person at the top is a really good person.

I’m not a singer or a dancer, my Broadway dreams are ridiculous.

I think I may be the perfect audience search for Quibi, because I’m a very bite-size kind of person. I can’t actually watch long things. The most I can watch is a little episode of ‘Forensic Files,’ and anything longer than that is too much.

I only use one mascara and it’s actually a drugstore one: the L’Oreal Paris Double Extend Beauty Tubes mascara.

Every party I do go to, all I’m thinking about is ways to improve it.

I have this PTSD from a birthday party where no one showed up.

I left home to start working pretty young so I missed a lot of Christmases and therefore didn’t really take part in any holiday traditions.

I sometimes fantasize about being an old lady, when you can say the truth that everyone else is thinking and no one is saying.

I can’t say I’m a huge sports fan, so I usually watch the game for the commercials, and I go to Super Bowl parties for the snacks.

I like a character, not a costume – the idea of putting on clothes and you become someone else.

In Canada, you do smaller movies that maybe nobody sees, but you get to do bigger, better parts.