Emily Blunt Quotes

(On being an actress) "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."

(On why she is often cast as the bad-girl) "I have sly eyes. When I was in school they always said, `Emily can never be elected Head Girl because you never know what she`s thinking."

I`d love to be exciting and say that I was the rebel at school, but sadly I wasn`t.

(On performing period-drama dialogue) "I mean, you try to make it as real as possible but when you have lines like `The fallen eagle is Caesar; the vulture Octavius, and there is one, yet to be decided, who will betray them all`. And you`re just like, `Great, how am I going to make that work?`."

(On becoming a successful actress) "It was just crazy. It just sort of fell into my lap. It`s an awful story for people who`ve struggled and waited. It`s a horrible thing to hear. It was just incredibly fortunate. And now I can`t believe I was so casual about it, because I really wouldn`t want to do anything else."

(On her childhood) "My head was occupied all the time. I was confused about what I wanted to do or who I was; I didn`t really feel I had an identity growing up."

(On accepting her Golden Globe in 2007 without a written speech) "The Globes night was a frenzy: I hadn`t written anything. I looked down at the audience and Jack Nicholson was staring up at me and I couldn`t even remember what my bloody name was. So I have learnt my lesson!".

(On her manipulative character in My Summer of Love (2004)) "Whether they like to admit it or not, everyone`s got a bit of "Tamsin" in them".

(On Susan Sarandon) "She`s just a force of nature. Amazing to work with. We just had such a laugh. And, she`s frighteningly smart".

I couldn`t talk as a kid because I stammered all the time, so I would just watch. I`m fascinated by human behavior. People surprise me all the time. And I love being able to morph into different characters.