Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kristin Scott Thomas
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Kristin Scott Thomas.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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'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.
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
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.
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.
I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
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.
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.
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
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.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
I was terrible at school.
I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
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.
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
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.
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.
I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
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.
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 parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
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.
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.
My life is European.
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.
Movies make you immortal and ageless.
We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.
Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.
You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
I'm very lazy!
Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
I never raise my voice!
Successful films are very dangerous things.
After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
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.
Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
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.
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.
People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
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