Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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My children are lovely. They're perfect.
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Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
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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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People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
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I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.
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I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
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I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.
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Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
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I'm very lazy!
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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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Movies make you immortal and ageless.
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My life is European.
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Films are just consumables.
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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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I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.
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My body is a baby machine.
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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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French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
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Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
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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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Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
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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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Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.
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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.