Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Movie, Stars, Children

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• Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Morning, Sitting, Dull

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• If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Sheep, Pigs, Scotland

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• I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Smart, Mean, Admiration

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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.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Queens, Wall, Home

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• I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Frightened

  "I'm a horrible bully" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.

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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.'

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Mother, Art, Reading

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• I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Fun, Acting, Different

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• I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Worry, Doubt, Always Worrying

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• I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Character, Giving, Directors

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• I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Stars, Thinking, Numbers

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• After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Thinking, Two, Long

  "I'm 47. Unlike most actresses I don't lie about my age" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2008.

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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.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Quality, Want

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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.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Language, Foreign Language

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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.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Character, Actors, Want

  "Kristin Scott Thomas: 'It's the most amazing feeling of liberation" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Films are just consumables.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Want, Littles, Traps

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• Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Regret, Past, Roles

  "Kristin Scott Thomas: 'Food mixers are not on the menu, thanks...'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Different, Shapes, Size

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• Movies make you immortal and ageless.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Movie, Ageless, Immortal

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