Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

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

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.

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.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

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

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

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

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.

My body is a baby machine.

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

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.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

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

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

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

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.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

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

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I was terrible at school.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

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.

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

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.

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

I never raise my voice!

I'm a late developer.

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.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

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.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

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.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.