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" 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. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

People

Face

Focus

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" I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself! "

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Want

Myself

" I was terrible at school. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

School

Terrible

" With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. "

" I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Think

Singers

" I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it. "

" I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Playing

I Am

" 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. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Always

My Own

" 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

Character

Respect

" People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Spark

Want

" 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. "

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

Been

Nature

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

" Boarding school is a wicked thing. "

" 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. "

" I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it. "

" It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet. "

" We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Different

Fine

" It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents. "

" 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. "

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

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

Love

Contradiction

" I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. "

" I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about. "

" 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. "

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

You

Sure

" 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. "