Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kristin Scott Thomas - Page 2

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

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

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.

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

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

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

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

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I'm a late developer.

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

'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!

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

My body is a baby machine.

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

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

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.

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

Films are just consumables.

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

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

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

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

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

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.