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.
— Emily Blunt
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'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.
I don't really watch that much TV, to be honest.
I've got guns now. It's kind of gross.
I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.
I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.
Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about it. Because, you know, I'm not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I'm always really happy for them. I think we're always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it's true.
I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
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.
After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.
I'm kind of effectively bipolar.
I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.
It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn't ever go wrong with a suit.
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
I would love to be on Broadway!
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.
With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.
People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.
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.
Why should you have to atone for making big movies?
I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.
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.
I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.
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.
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.
You can go at the premiere it's at Disneyland.
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?
It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.
I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man', and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.
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.
I'm such a diva on set.
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.
Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.
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.
Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.
I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.
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.
When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.
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 had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
