Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.
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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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Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.
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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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French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
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I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
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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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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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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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Successful films are very dangerous things.
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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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After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
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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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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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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 do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
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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'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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I was terrible at school.