Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
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I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
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My life is European.
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I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.
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I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
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I never raise my voice!
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Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
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Films are just consumables.
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Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
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'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
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Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
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Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.
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In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
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Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
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I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
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I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
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The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
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As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
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Movies make you immortal and ageless.
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You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.
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After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
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We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
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As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
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The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.