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Quotes by Kristin Scott Thomas

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.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
Have you ever been to the proper desert? The most extraordinary thing is the silence. There's nothing to move out there. I got such a buzz out of it.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I am terribly inarticulate. I find it very difficult to say what I think, which is why I am an actress. If you are inarticulate you can either become a painter, or a musician or an actor, and the laziest of these three is becoming an actor because somebody else writes it... you just put the hat on and say the words.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I can look pig ugly standing on my head - I'm plain, bony and brittle.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I did all those things you're supposed to do when you're nineteen in Paris. Spent hours talking, redoing the world in the back of a cafe, and smoking about fifty Gitanes. Had a great time doing that - corny, but great.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I hate what I would call the whorish provoking of tears, and I hate feeling that I've been tricked into crying when I see a film. And I cry at the drop of a hat -- pathetic!
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I mean, what's wrong with being middle-class? I'm middle-class! However, I've got over it now. I'll be an aristocrat now if they want me to be. I suppose having an image as a brainy upper-class beauty is better than the alternative.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I resent articles that have described my childhood as tragic. It wasn't a bed of roses and it wasn't a hellhole. You just get on with it.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I wanted to be a saint.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
Men whistle at you in the street and boys fantasize about you - not my kind of blondes, only those with a 40-inch chest.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
Movies make you immortal and ageless.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
My idea of bliss was to be on a TV talent show from somewhere like Blackpool, doing tap or singing. I loved that stuff, but my mother thought it was vulgar.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
Of course I'm horrible. I am bitchy about people behind their backs and I can be callous, insensitive and brutal. I try to be good, but I am very wicked.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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 are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
The one thing I do not want to be in, is a film in which I'm someone there to make men look good, muscularly and strong.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
When I get to Hollywood I feel all this pressure to be exactly the same as everybody else. I think it's more interesting to dither around on the outskirts and just nip in from time to time.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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
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.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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
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
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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
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.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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
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