Best 76 quotes of Kristin Scott Thomas on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I never raise my voice!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 was terrible at school.

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

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