Quotes from Emily Hampshire

I've come to learn it's a luxury to be a sort of blue collar celebrity in Canada. It makes you more humble.

I like being part of a film scene where the person at the top is a really good person.

In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, 'Emily plays well alone.'

I'm so terrible with holiday shopping. I want to get something truly incredible for everyone on my list. But, in the end I end up with nothing at all.

Honestly, I think I have this narcolepsy thing with reading. I fall asleep when I'm reading. So, if I stay awake to read an entire script, I'm like, 'Wow, I need to do this.'

I like to see the silver linings in things.

I'm so bad at dancing that I've actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That's how bad my dancing is.

I've been in this industry since I was 12 years old.

I left home to start working pretty young so I missed a lot of Christmases and therefore didn't really take part in any holiday traditions.

In Canada, you do smaller movies that maybe nobody sees, but you get to do bigger, better parts.

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

I'm a disaster and I'm super messy.

I only use one mascara and it's actually a drugstore one: the L'Oreal Paris Double Extend Beauty Tubes mascara.

I like to shoot on location 'cause I can just immerse myself in the world of the movie.

You think of She-Hulk and muscles and stuff, but the person who's behind it is just such a cool character.

I definitely wouldn't want an unhappy wife, that's for sure.

I sometimes fantasize about being an old lady, when you can say the truth that everyone else is thinking and no one is saying.

I once had those really short Angelina Jolie in 'Girl, Interrupted' bangs - and that was a mistake for me.

I'd love to make a movie and star in it with all my friends.

A lot of the time you have older writers who think that every teenager says 'dude' all the time.

I'm lazy and I do procrastinate about laundry!

I've been lucky to find character parts that are leads as well.