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" I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

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

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

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" My body is a baby machine. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I'm very wary of trust, you see. "

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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. "

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

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" French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. "

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

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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. "

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

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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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" 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 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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" 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. "

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

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" I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home. "

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" Boarding school is a wicked thing. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things. "

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