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.. As Said By Emily "It's a challenge to play pretentious people, I think. You can't have the audience hating her. You have to see moments where she's generous and warm. It was great to play someone with an eccentricity about her."
on her character Tamsin from My Summer of Love

"When you're in love you completely lose sight of everything. You can't think straight. When you're passionate about something there is that feeling that you want to rip it out of your brain. So, I don't know. I think there should be some psychological forgiveness for that (laughs).
discussing crimes of passion

"I've definitely been in love. I've definitely invested so much in another person that I would put them before myself. I think that can be a dangerous game to play because you don't look after yourself so much. I think it's important that there is a quality of self-contentment in a relationship. But I know twhat it feels like to....itÕs all encompassing.
talking about obsessive love

"We were overwhelmed, and I don't think either of us ever got over it. We'd occasionally say very stupid things in front of her and then go (mouth expletive)."
on her experience meeting Meryl Streep

"We were a bit intimidated by working with her. You don't know what to expect. You think, 'Supermodel - - is she going to be a pain in the ass?' And she walks in and she's so gregarious and fun. She fills a room with personality. And the woman's like a racehorse. She's like the sexiest thing I've ever seen. She comes in and everybody instantly feels short and fat."
about her experience meeting Gisele Bunchen

"I'd love to be exciting and say that I was the rebel at school, but sadly I wasn't."
on her personality in highschool

"Whether they like to admit it or not, everyone's got a bit of "Tamsin" in them."
on her manipulative character in "My Summer of Love"

"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 being an actress

"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."
on why she's often cast as the bad-girl

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

"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 becoming a successful actress

"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 indentity growing up."
on her childhood

"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 performing period-drama dialogue

"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 accepting her Golden Globe in 2007