Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

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.

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

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Successful films are very dangerous things.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My body is a baby machine.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I was terrible at school.