Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt: It's not like people say, "Oh my gosh, are you Emily Blunt?" It's more like, "Are you the girl in The Devil Wears Prada?" I'm defined by it. And that's okay.

Emily: I like fashion, I'm very partial to Marc Jacobs and Prada, but I don't want clothes to wear me. Ordinarily, I dress like a teenage boy in layered T-shirts and Converse gear. Emily, my fashion-obsessed character in The Devil Wears Prada, was an alien from Planet Fashion.

Emily: (on becoming an actress) I was a hopeless drifter, really. I didn't know what I wanted to do, and then the opportunity to have an agent landed in my lap. I was just relieved someone else made up my mind for me.

Emily: In the UK, which is what I know because it's where I grew up, it's more of a parochial thing that's going on there. It's not so politicized. It doesn't have the same power or resonance that it has over here. I would say that I'm Christian, but I wouldn't say that I'm particularly religious in any way. I think that the people that I met on the movie, and they were real born, again Christians, seemed very sorted, as if God had dropped in their laps and suddenly everything was fine. I don't know what I feel about that.

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.

Emily: I'd love to be exciting and say that I was the rebel at school, but sadly I wasn't.

Emily: 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 what it feels like to…it's all encompassing.

Emily: 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.

Emily: Life is ambiguous, isn't it? It's never as black and white as you see it in the movie.

Emily (about playing a bad influence in "My Summer of Love"): It was great! Because I was a bit of a goody-two-shoes at school. I was never Tamsin, I was always the geek following her around, desperate for her to smile on me. So, I guess it was great to play someone like that who is troubled, who has such a pretentious quality to her. But you've got to love her; you've got to find her magnetic.

Emily: (on her film, "My Summer of Love") I think it's about being a realist and being true to yourself, and your instincts and emotions; rather than it becoming a façade. With Tamsin, it's all façade. She has kind of a frightening imagination. You have to have that as an actress. You have to be able to touch on those experiences that you haven't had and characters that you have no relation to. It's important to be able to dig deep, but I think it's about being very real with yourself more than anything.