Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Emily Blunt - Page 2

You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.

I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

It's nice to play someone who is naive.

When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

As long as everyone is playing for the scene or the movie, rather than themselves, then you're going to have something really good.

I think a shot can actually influence a scene in a huge way. For example, comedy is always better in a two-shot. What's between the characters is what's funny. So you learn about these things as you go along.

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.

It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

I'm with someone who makes me incredibly happy. I'm not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that marriage takes the romance out of things. I think it gets better, it deepens. I love being a wife. We have a blast.

My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And, I'm a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it's more fun for me, actually.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

I really asked myself, “Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?” That’s what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.

To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.

Well, you wear underwear. That helps.

I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

I find it very strange doing voiceover stuff, because you find you have to enunciate and make stupid faces in order for the point to make sense, because it's playing against the deadpan Simpson face. If you're just speaking in the regular way you speak, it will sound really boring.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.