Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.”
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“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.”
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“We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.”
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“It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.”
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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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“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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“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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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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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“I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.”
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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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“I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.”
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“We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.”
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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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“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'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.”
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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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“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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“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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“French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.”
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“Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.”
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“I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.”
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“I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.”
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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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“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 never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?”
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