Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes - Page 3

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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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  School, Leftovers, Gang

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• The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

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  Successful, Wanted

  "The three stages of Kristin" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2007.

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• I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

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  Crazy, Home, Mean

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

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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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  Jobs, Home, People

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

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  People, Rose, Different

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• The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

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  Movie, Stars, Space

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Film

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

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

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  Worry, Doubt, Always Worrying

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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.

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

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  Want, Littles, Traps

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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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  Cannes Film Festival, Political, Different

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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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  Successful, Actors, Ifs

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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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  Sweet, Mean, People

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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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  Character, Thinking, Play

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• If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.

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  Girl, Running, Night

  "Kristin Scott Thomas: 'I've been a very sad person, but I'm not any more'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2009.

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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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  Shooting, Sticks, Film

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• Movies make you immortal and ageless.

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  Movie, Ageless, Immortal

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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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  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• My body is a baby machine.

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  Baby, Machines, Body

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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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  Looks, Want, Way

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

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• You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

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  Thinking, Cost, Benz

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