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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. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Admiration

Who

You

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

" Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day. "

" I never raise my voice! "

" I'm a late developer. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Late

Developer

" I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Relief

" 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 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. "

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

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

" If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? "

" 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. "

" When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class 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. "

" 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

" My life is European. "

" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "

" 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

" The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources. "

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

" 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. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Rest

Play

" You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good. "

" Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. "

" 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. "

" Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people. "

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

" Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children. "