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" I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself! "
Kristin Scott Thomas
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Me
Myself
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" French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. "
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" French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. "
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" Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people. "
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" 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. "
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" I do consider myself as being French, I suppose. "
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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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" My body is a baby machine. "
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" Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor. "
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" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "
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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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" Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love. "
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" I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work. "
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" I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now. "
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" Successful films are very dangerous things. "
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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'm a late developer. "
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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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Who
You
" Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones. "
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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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" I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. "
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" Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. "
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" 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. "
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People
Face
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" 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. "
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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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" As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. "
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" It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. "
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" Movies make you immortal and ageless. "
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" 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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" I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things. "
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" Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day. "
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