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, 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 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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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 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 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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I'm a late developer.
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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 still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
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I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
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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'm very wary of trust, you see.
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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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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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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.
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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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Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
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There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
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I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.
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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 think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
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It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.