Emma Thompson quotes from QI

Emma Thompson

[pointing at Stephen] I used to do that to him, actually, make sure that he couldn't get out while I was changing.

Stephen Fry

You did.

Emma Thompson

Yeah. It was very good fun.

Stephen Fry

She used to show me her breasts. [He rhymes the word with "beasts".]

Emma Thompson

This fantastic effect I used to have on him, 'cause I could make—I could do it now—I'm not going to, but I could—I could make him scream.

Stephen Fry

[small scream] No. No. Don't.

Emma Thompson

Not like that scream that we just heard, but a real, actual sort of scream of terror and fright, just by appearing nude at the top of his stairs. [Stephen shudders.] And doing what I like to do, which is locking all the doors at the bottom, so that when he tried to get out … [Stephen mimes pounding on locked doors] … as I came down the stairs, going, "Yes, baby, they're all yours!" By the end of which he was in a state of such extreme panic, and it's great to make someone very clever fall apart like that.

Stephen Fry

[to Emma Thompson, about her pubic hair] Do you wax yourself down there, dovey?

Emma Thompson

[gets up intimidatingly] Do you want to see?

Stephen Fry

[collapses] No! I don't want to see! No, I do not. Oh, God!

Emma Thompson

You know I'd do it.

Stephen Fry

I know you would. She'd envelope me in her skirt.

Alan Davies

Lock the doors! Lock the doors! Ye of faint of heart, leave immediately!

Emma Thompson

You know the word "luvvie"?

Stephen Fry

Yeah?

Emma Thompson

What do you all feel about it?

Stephen Fry

I mean, I'm not going to get as upset as some actors do—some actors say, "We do a bloody hard job at work, we're serious people, we—you know, it's a coal face, doing a play! How dare they call us luvvies!" You know? I mean, that's a bit overdone. On the other hand, it's a bit tedious when the Daily Mail says "luvvie couple XYZ" or something …

Emma Thompson

Do you know what the first citation of it is in the OED?

Stephen Fry

No.

Emma Thompson

It's you.

Stephen Fry

gasps

Stephen Fry

No! I can't believe... Did I invent the word?

Emma Thompson

Yeah, it's you sometime in the 1980s.

Stephen Fry

Did I? I'm ashamed.