Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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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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The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
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People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
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French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
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When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.
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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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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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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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After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
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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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I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
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I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
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I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
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I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
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Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
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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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Successful films are very dangerous things.
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It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
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With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
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I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
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I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
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I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.
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Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
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I was terrible at school.