Emily Watson
Emily Watson
Emily Margaret Watson, OBEis an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Wavesand for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 2011 ITV drama Appropriate Adult...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 January 1967
CityIslington, England
careers rejection goldfish
In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
husband careers looks
I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.
jobs anxiety theatre
It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
heart looks actors
It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.
home thinking rooms
During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.
actors rooms cameras
As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.
figuring generally manage managing private shy tough ways
I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
baggage drunk english-actress love punch
The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.
english-actress hardly home last outside plans seemed stepped time
When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.
english-actress
I always think I am going to do my best.
people relate until
I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.
english-actress
I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.
english-actress people
Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.
amazing generous hard human outside
I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.