Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

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

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

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.

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

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I never raise my voice!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

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

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

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

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

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

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.

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'm a late developer.

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

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

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Films are just consumables.