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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?

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Kristin Scott Thomas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 24
Actor
Actress
Character Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Redruth
Cornwall
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I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
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The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
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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.
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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 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.
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I'm very wary of trust, you see.
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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.
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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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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.
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I never raise my voice!
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Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
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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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I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
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My children are lovely. They're perfect.
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After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
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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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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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It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
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