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

Kristin Scott Thomas

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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