Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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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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Successful films are very dangerous things.
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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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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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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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If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
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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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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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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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I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
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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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Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.
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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 love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
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After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
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Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
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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 do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
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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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I was terrible at school.