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" I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Knowledge
Think
Better
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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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" 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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" It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. "
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" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "
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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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" 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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" Boarding school is a wicked thing. "
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" It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents. "
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" I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom. "
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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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" You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you. "
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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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" Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. "
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" With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7. "
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" As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. "
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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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Playing
Up
I Am
" 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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" 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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