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All Quotes by author - Kristin Scott Thomas

" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "

" As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about. "

" As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. "

" 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. "

" At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers. "

" Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day. "

" Boarding school is a wicked thing. "

Boarding School

" Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. "

" Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor. "

" Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. "

" Films are just consumables. "

" French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. "

" French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. "

" Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced. "

" Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. "

" I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32. "

" 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. "

" I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. "

" 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. "

" I do consider myself as being French, I suppose. "

" I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom. "

" I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable. "

" If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. "

" I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. "

" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "

" If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily. "

" 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. "

" 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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