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" I never raise my voice! "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Raise
Voice
Never
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" 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. "
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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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" French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. "
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" You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you. "
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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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" 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'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Films are just consumables. "
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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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" Successful films are very dangerous things. "
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Very
Successful
" I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. "
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Up
I Am
" I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32. "
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Girl
I Am
" I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. "
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" I'm very wary of trust, you see. "
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Very
" I'm very good at forgetting people. "
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People
Forgetting
" 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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Woman
Voice
" We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. "
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Lucky
Older
" My children are lovely. They're perfect. "
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Lovely
Children
" 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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Fierce
Feel
Good
" 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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Mother
Nothing
People
" 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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Machine
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