Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
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I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
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I'm very wary of trust, you see.
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If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
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I'm a late developer.
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Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
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I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.
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I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
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Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.
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I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
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If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.
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At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
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I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.
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Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
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I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
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I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
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I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.
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I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
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The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
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If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
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I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
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As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
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When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.