Emily Blunt Quotes

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

There's a little bit of me in everybody that I play.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

I think most actors are very impressionable, and that's part of what we do is soak up other's behavior.

I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other.

When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character.

There are some roles that are more still and internal and emotional, and others that are more physical, which get you out of your mind for a while.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

Singers have a lot in common with actors because you have to dig deep into a song and show the audience what you are feeling as you sing.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings.

I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.