Quotes By Emily Blunt

I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?

If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

I'm Sudafed-ed up, but it's alright because I'm having to do this rather sultry scene, so maybe it's OK that my voice is three octaves lower.

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

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

I would love to be on Broadway!

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

You can go at the premiere it's at Disneyland.