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" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Mother
Difficult
Two
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" It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. "
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" Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. "
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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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" I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it. "
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" Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. "
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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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" If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. "
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" Life is too short to live on low-fat everything. "
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" 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. "
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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 mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory. "
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Tiny
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" Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. "
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" 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. "
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