Top 58 Quotes & Sayings by Emily Hampshire

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian actress Emily Hampshire.

Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Emily Hampshire is a Canadian actress. Her best known roles include Angelina in the 1998 romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl, Vivienne in the 2006 film Snow Cake, Jennifer Goines in the Syfy drama series 12 Monkeys (2015–2018), Misery in Ruby Gloom, and Stevie Budd in the CBC comedy series Schitt's Creek (2015–2020).

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I've been an actor since I was 12 and my dream role is Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.' What's crazy is that I'm not a great singer or dancer but I'll commit.

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I have a file - my character box - anything from magazines - a pose, a face - I go through these files and arrange a whole person out of them. Because I think what you wear, it says something. It's not necessarily you, but what you want to project.

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As a kid, I used to love going to the cabane a sucre in Montreal to go sugaring off with our school. Sleigh rides, hot maple syrup, pour that syrup on snow and you got yourself some taffy. Need I say more?

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I've been in the industry forever, since I was a kid. It's a very LGBTQ-plus friendly industry and all my friends are gay or gay-straight, or trans-nonbinary, everything.

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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.

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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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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If you're going to break out anywhere it would be nice to break out in your hometown.

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

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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?'

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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.

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I realize how lucky I am to be able to go a couple months without a paycheck, but a lot of industry people go paycheck to paycheck.

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

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I like to see the silver linings in things.

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I wish I could relive those days when I was 8 and my mother bought all the gifts I gave to people. I loved watching people open them. It was a surprise for me and then.

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

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I'm a bit of a workaholic.

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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.

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

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

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I'm so terrible with holiday shopping. I want to get something truly incredible for everyone on my list. But, in the end I end up with nothing at all.

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

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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.

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

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I would love for a movie that I'm really proud of to launch my career but I wouldn't like it to be some teen kind of thing that I did for money.

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If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I'd like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind of thing.

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

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

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I try to play whole, recognizable human beings.

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I actually never thought I wanted to do a series.

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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.

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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.

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

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I never did commercials. Not that I didn't want to, but because I can't. I am just so bad at it.

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Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

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

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

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I'm a big fan of Charlie Day.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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A lot of the time you have older writers who think that every teenager says 'dude' all the time.

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Time is different in quarantine. It's such a whole other world.

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I'm always looking for new projects.

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I never leave the house.

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I want to be in a position where I get to choose what I do and make the movies I want to make, as opposed to sometimes, you have to make the one you get.

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

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The Winnipeg cold is different than anything I have ever experienced.

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I'm lazy and I do procrastinate about laundry!

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I'm a disaster and I'm super messy.

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

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