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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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Kristin Scott Thomas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 24
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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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You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
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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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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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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 know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.
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I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
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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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There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
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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 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 mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
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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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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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I'm very wary of trust, you see.
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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'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
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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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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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