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

Kristin Scott Thomas

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Kristin Scott Thomas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 24
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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 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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The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
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It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
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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 love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
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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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I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
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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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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.
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I'm very good at forgetting 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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Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
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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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Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
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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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I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
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