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| • | smoked in high school, John Woolman Prep, Nevada City, CA, netizen, '81 |
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| • | "'Hope I'm not being boring,' she says, puffing on her cigarette. She does this with the slightly nutty frequency of someone who thinks that if you're going to smoke you might as well do it properly.", Express on Sunday (Magazine) (UK), Apr. 5, '98 |
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| • | "the battered classic car she drives around town, so full of empty Coke cans, parking tickets, and packets of Silk Cut that you can't see the floor", The Express (Saturday magazine) (UK), May 22, '99 |
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| • | "We'd all sit around on the set [of 'Stab 3'] smoking cigarettes, drinking lots of coffee and moaning about how we get killed off too early.", Daily Telegraph (Magazine Supplement), Apr. 22, '00 |
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| • | admits sitting around smoking after finishing a scene in a recent film, Sunday Telegraph (UK), Apr. 23, '00 |
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| • | "the intellectual who claims the only thing she learnt to do properly at Oxford was smoke", The Independent (UK), Oct. 29, '00 |
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| • | "she giggles, lighting a cigarette", The Observer (UK), Dec. 2, '01
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| • | "she says the only thing she learnt at Oxford [University] was smoking - something she does constantly during our interview", Mail on Sunday (You magazine) (UK), Jul. 28, '02 |
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| • | "Q: What was it like working with Meatloaf on 'Formula 51'? A: Meatloaf is great. He's incredibly relaxed and chilled out. I'd smoke cigarettes and listen to him", New York Post, Oct. 13, '02 |
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| • | "I indulge in... Smoking cigarettes", InStyle Magazine, Oct. '02 |
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| • | "C - Now that youre splitting your time between here and America, are you still adamant that you wont give up smoking? E - Never! - Well I don't know. I'd like to give it up if I got pregnant, but if it was just down to me, no. I'll be a campaigner for the cause whether I give it up or not. I think everybody should smoke!", Unreel Online, '02
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| • | "And there was my son, my then 15 month old son, traucing through the middle of baby gym with a packet of 20 marlboro lights held above his head, and he'd been rummaging through my handbag to look for his pacifier and pulled out a packet of cigarettes.", The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Mar. 3, '03 |
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| • | "This is not the thespian I was expecting who usually spins witty self-deprecation into an art form and who has a sassy opinion on everything from smoking (she is in favour of it, big time) to her own physical flaws: ('one eye bigger than the other, big nose, yellowing teeth')...'[my 14-month-old son] was toddling across the room with a pack of Marlboro Lights fished out of my handbag in his fist. In LA, it would have caused less of a sensation if it had been a handgun.", Sunday Times (UK), Dec. 5, '04
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| • | " 'Until Frankie, I didn't realise that feeling part of a film was about staying up late, getting drunk, smoking and all that. And I wasn't doing it, obviously; or if I did, I felt racked with guilt about it. That was odd. It felt much more like a job of work' The 'guilt' she's referring to here concerns her pregnancy...looks a bit sad that she's left all that roll-ups-and-meaning-of-life stuff behind...You just know she wishes she had a roll-up cigarette to stub out. But this is 2004, no one smokes, and she's got a baby to think about. Times have changed, and no mistake", The Guardian (UK), Dec. 10, '04
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| • | "Guilt, she says, is a major part of (Mortimer's character) Lizzie's make-up, as it is for all parents. 'I've worked that out. I have this baby and a major emotion is guilt. Even when you're pregnant, it's, Should I have this cup of coffee, or hot bath, or cigarette? It's a definite part of being a parent'", The Scotsman (UK), Jan. 9, '05 |
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| • | "'It was a kind of rebellion, and it was my very roundabout, screwed-up way of standing up to that without telling everybody to fuck off', Mortimer said and the way that she swears is the way that she smokes: frequently and with enthusiasm", Sunday Times (UK), Jan. 16, '05 |
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| • | "her baby son...embarrassed her with a pack of cigarettes in front of shocked parents....the tot started waving his mother's cigarettes above his head... 'And I turned around to see where they were looking and there was my son...trotting through the middle of baby gym with a packet of 20 Marlboro Lights held above his head. He'd been rummaging through my handbag to look for his pacifier and pulled out a packet of cigarettes' ", website, Mar. 4, '05
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| • | "the minute I conceived my baby, I felt this protective urge that makes you feel like a proper person for the first time ever, and that's mixed with this other feeling, which happened to me immediately, which is guilt. 'Oh God, I shouldn't have drunk my cup of coffee or had a hot bath.' You can't smoke a cigarette or have a drink", Boston Herald, Mar. 7, '05
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| • | "She still smokes, a habit on a par with homicide in California (though she has incongruously impressive teeth)", Daily Telegraph (UK), Sep. 19, '05
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| • | "Mortimer said she would give up smoking as her New Year's resolution", San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 1, '06 |
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| • | "said she would give up smoking as her New Year's resolution afteran incident in a Mommy and Me class. 'Sam, my son, had got a pack ofMarlboro Lights out of my handbag and was carrying them through the class. Had he been carrying a small shotgun, it would have been less shocking,' shesaid", The Guardian (UK), Jan. 2, '06
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| • | "In the past, she's met journalists in her favourite coffee shop near her home in Echo Park, a suburb as hip, edgy and as approximate to Notting Hill as LA ever gets, which isn't very. Delicious rudeness and chronic English self-deprecation were themes in these interviews, as were smoking and swearing.", The Times (UK), Mar. 4, '06 |
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| • | "I smoke cigarettes", STV (UK), Aug. 31, '08
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| • | "The day before we meet, Emily says she walked through Central Park with her mother, who made a point of lighting up - just a few days after New York implemented an outdoor smoking ban. 'She's a total chainsmoker,' says Emily. 'And when she's here I find it really hard not to smoke. But I'm ashamed to admit that I'm not such a committed smoker as I was. I just don't want to die, basically'", Telegraph (UK), Jul. 24, '11
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