Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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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'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, 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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I'm a late developer.
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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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Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
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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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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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As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
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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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People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
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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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I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
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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 know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
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I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did 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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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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I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
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I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
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It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
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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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If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.