Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
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After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
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We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.
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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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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.
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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 wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
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I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
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I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.
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Boarding school is a wicked thing.
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I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
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I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
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Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.
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I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
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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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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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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 still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
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I never raise my voice!
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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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Movies make you immortal and ageless.
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I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.
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I was terrible at school.
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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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Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
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I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.
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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'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
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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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