Kristin Scott Thomas famous quotes

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

#Life Is Too Short #Life Is Short #Lows

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

#Travel #Insecure #People

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Europe #Lucky #Drawers

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Careers #Two #Different

'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!
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Talking #Careers #Oscars

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

#Political #Littles #Festivals

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Stars #Children #Thinking

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

#Morning #Sitting #Dull

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Sheep #Pigs #Scotland

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Fun #Acting #Different

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Smart #Mean #Admiration

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

#Queens #Wall #Home

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#People #Focus #Skins

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

#Character #Gains #Actors

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#People #Bully #Horrible

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

#Different #Shapes #Size

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Stars #Space #People

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Men #Numbers #Giving

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

#Worry #Doubt

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

#Beautiful #Girl #Falling In Love

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 #Quality #Use

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

#Language #Foreign Language

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

#Country #Culture #Ageing

Films are just consumables.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Film

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Hate #Doctors #One Love

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Safety #Parent #Feelings

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

#Actresses #Ashamed #Difficult

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

#Regret #Past #England

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Mother #People #Pinching

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

#Simple #Way #Complicated

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

#Depression #Mental Illness #Should

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

#Jobs #Knowledge #Thinking

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

#Sexy #Sweat #Sand

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

#Opposites #People #Interest

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

#Children #Adults #Shock

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

#Thinking #Two #Long

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

#Vision #Acting #Months

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

#Falling In Love #Men #Film

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Long #Appreciate #Parent

I'm very good at forgetting people.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#People #Forget #Very Good

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

#Class #People #Film

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

#Shooting #Sticks #Film

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

#Heart #World #Want

Movies make you immortal and ageless.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Movie #Ageless #Immortal

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

#People #Flying #World

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

#Sweet #Mean #People

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

#School #Leftovers #Gang

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Two #Three #Favorites Things

Boarding school is a wicked thing.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#School #Wicked

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Adorable #Want

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

#Mother #Art #Reading

I'm very wary of trust, you see.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

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

#Artist #Thinking #Brave

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Frightened

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

#Sound #Sound Of Music #Andrew

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

#Mother #Character #Two

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

#Moving #Home #France

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Men #Upset

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

#Careers #Crossings #Balanced

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

#Hands #People #Giving

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

#Want #Littles #Traps

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.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Who I Am #I Am Who I Am #Relief