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" 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
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" I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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Acting
Me
" 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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Feel
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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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Who
You
" 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 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. "
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Home
Now
Move
" Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day. "
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I Can
Three
Baths
" I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. "
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Find
Difficult
" I'm a late developer. "
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Late
Developer
" Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. "
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Having
Than
" If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. "
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Direction
Run
Opposite
" There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. "
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Sand
About
Like
" 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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Character
Want
Life
" My body is a baby machine. "
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Body
Baby
Machine
" 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. "
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Circumstances
Think
React
" Boarding school is a wicked thing. "
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Thing
School
Boarding School
" I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do. "
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Things
Very
Tend
" Life is too short to live on low-fat everything. "
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Life
Life Is Too Short
Live
" I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. "
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Like
Love
Contradiction
" 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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Food
Motorcycle
Mother
" It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. "
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Career
Hard
Languages
" I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background. "
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Feel
Perception
Home
" I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? "
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Simple
Way
I Can
" 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. "
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Me
Always
My Own
" I just don't see very many films. Because I make them. "
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See
Just
Make
" I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it. "
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Sound
Still
Love
" I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look. "
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People
Play
Look
" I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way. "
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Talk
Stand