Quotes from Emily Hampshire

I'm just really bad at selling anything I don't actually use or like.

I realize how lucky I am to be able to go a couple months without a paycheck, but a lot of industry people go paycheck to paycheck.

When you live with someone, it pays to buy them a gift that you would love to have around the house.

I can't say I'm a huge sports fan, so I usually watch the game for the commercials, and I go to Super Bowl parties for the snacks.

You're always told in Canadian movies to make it look like the U.S. and people buy into the idea that that's the only way it'll work.

I'm a big fan of Charlie Day.

To get - or not to get - bangs is a question that women struggle with all their life. I consider this question to be amongst those like, 'What happens when we die? or 'Is there life on other planets?'

I never did commercials. Not that I didn't want to, but because I can't. I am just so bad at it.

As a kid, I used to love going to the cabane a sucre in Montreal to go sugaring off with our school. Sleigh rides, hot maple syrup, pour that syrup on snow and you got yourself some taffy. Need I say more?

I have a file - my character box - anything from magazines - a pose, a face - I go through these files and arrange a whole person out of them. Because I think what you wear, it says something. It's not necessarily you, but what you want to project.

I like a character, not a costume - the idea of putting on clothes and you become someone else.

I feel like I am very welcome at TIFF and I think it's because I'm Canadian and I've been there a bunch of times.

I'm not a singer or a dancer, my Broadway dreams are ridiculous.

I've been an actor since I was 12 and my dream role is Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.' What's crazy is that I'm not a great singer or dancer but I'll commit.

I would love for a movie that I'm really proud of to launch my career but I wouldn't like it to be some teen kind of thing that I did for money.

I think I may be the perfect audience search for Quibi, because I'm a very bite-size kind of person. I can't actually watch long things. The most I can watch is a little episode of 'Forensic Files,' and anything longer than that is too much.

I've been in the industry forever, since I was a kid. It's a very LGBTQ-plus friendly industry and all my friends are gay or gay-straight, or trans-nonbinary, everything.

When you're working as an actor when you're younger, or even when you're older, it's carney life. You go from one show to the other and you make these quick makeshift families.

I wish I could relive those days when I was 8 and my mother bought all the gifts I gave to people. I loved watching people open them. It was a surprise for me and then.

I try to play whole, recognizable human beings.

I'm a bit of a workaholic.

If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I'd like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind of thing.

I'm a bit fashion bipolar. I either really go for it or people think I'm a homeless person.

If you're going to break out anywhere it would be nice to break out in your hometown.