Blunt: "I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead."

Blunt: "If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone."

Blunt: "It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable."

Blunt: "The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint."

Blunt: "A bit of logical thinking gets me through something particularly hard. Then I recover very quickly. I'm not a 'dweller.'"

Blunt: "I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people."

Blunt: "I'm kind of effectively bipolar."

Blunt: "I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women."

Blunt: "I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on."

Blunt: "When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have."

Blunt: "I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit."

Blunt: "Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that."

Blunt: "I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time."

Blunt: "People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything."

Blunt: "I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure."

Blunt: "If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity."

Blunt: "I'm such a diva on set."

Blunt: "Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset."

Blunt: "There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters."

Blunt: "So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about it. Because, you know, I'm not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I'm always really happy for them. I think we're always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it's true."

Blunt: "Why should you have to atone for making big movies?"

Blunt: "I didn't have that burning ambition to act that a lot of people do. I had a rather shoulder-shrugging approach to entering the business."

Blunt: "People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff."