Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

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Kristin Scott Thomas

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 24, 1960

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm very good at forgetting people.

Kristin Scott Thomas

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Kristin Scott Thomas

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.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Kristin Scott Thomas

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

Kristin Scott Thomas

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

Kristin Scott Thomas

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

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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 find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

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People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

Kristin Scott Thomas

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Kristin Scott Thomas