Quote

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kristin Scott Thomas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 24
Actor
Actress
Character Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Redruth
Cornwall
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott-Thomas
British
Films
Playing
Class
Film
People
Upper
Feds

More quotes by Kristin Scott Thomas

Image
The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Successful films are very dangerous things.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
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
Image
I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
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
Image
I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
Kristin Scott Thomas