Quotes from Emily Blunt


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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.


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.


With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.


I'm such a diva on set.


It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.


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


I've got guns now. It's kind of gross.


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


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


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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'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.


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.


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?