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" As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Just
Shock
Adult
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" I'm very lazy! "
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Very
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Fun
Acting
Me
" When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Go For It
Try
You
" I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Like
Love
Contradiction
" Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Want
Little
Trap
" Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Acting
Seeing
Imagine
" I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Beautiful
Girl
I Am
" I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Six
Tiny
Father
" I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Simple
Way
I Can
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Me
Character
Respect
" When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Been
Irritating
Class
" I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Playing
Up
I Am
" Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Now
Playing
Working
" My children are lovely. They're perfect. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Perfect
Lovely
Children
" Films are just consumables. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Just
Films
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Like
More
Relief
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Know
Afraid
Good
" The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Been
Most
Parts
" In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.' "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Food
Motorcycle
Mother
" I'm a late developer. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Late
Developer
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Sheep
Wife
You
" My life is European. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
European
Life
My Life
" I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Worrying
About
Always
" I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Actress
Find
Difficult
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Home
Now
Move
" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Mother
Difficult
Two
" I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Heart
I Am
Want
" I never raise my voice! "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Raise
Voice
Never
" Movies make you immortal and ageless. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Ageless
You
Movies
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Work
Long
Know