Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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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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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 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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It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
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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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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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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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Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
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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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It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
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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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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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Successful films are very dangerous things.
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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'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
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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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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.