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" I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

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People

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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. "

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

Love

Contradiction

" People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different. "

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

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

Different

Fine

" I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity. "

" Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. "

" The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted. "

" I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged. "

" Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor. "

" 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. "

" We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. "

" Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones. "

" My life is European. "

" I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day. "

" I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now. "

" If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. "

" I was terrible at school. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

School

Terrible

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

" 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. "

" If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different. "

" Life is too short to live on low-fat everything. "

" I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32. "