Emily Mortimer

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. Emily Mortimer

I’m still shy – I’m no good at my children’s parent-teacher conferences, and I’m slowly learning how to ask for…

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death – everybody’s pretending that death doesn’t…

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories…

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can…

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, ‘Go…

I’m physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a…

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I…

I borrowed my friend’s car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car…

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn’t confident with other people and I think I…