Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

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

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

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.

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

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

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.

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.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

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

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

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.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

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.

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.

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

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.

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

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Films are just consumables.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

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

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

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

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

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.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

'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!

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

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.

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

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.