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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
Actor
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There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
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I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
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I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
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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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After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
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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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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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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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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 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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I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.
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I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.
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I never raise my voice!
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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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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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