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I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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Kristin Scott Thomas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 24
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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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My children are lovely. They're perfect.
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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'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
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Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
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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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I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
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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 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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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.
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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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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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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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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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You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
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Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
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