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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

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Kristin Scott Thomas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 24
Actor
Actress
Character Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Cornwall
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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.
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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.
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It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
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I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
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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.
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I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
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I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
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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.
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You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.
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There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
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My body is a baby machine.
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You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
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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.
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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.
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The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
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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.
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Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
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I never raise my voice!
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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.
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In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
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