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" If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Direction
Run
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" 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. "
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" I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background. "
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" I'm very wary of trust, you see. "
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" Boarding school is a wicked thing. "
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" I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director. "
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" The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted. "
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" I'm very good at forgetting people. "
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" Successful films are very dangerous things. "
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" Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. "
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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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" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "
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" 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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" 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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" Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones. "
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" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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 never raise my voice! "
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Raise
Voice
Never
" 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
" There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. "
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" People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different. "
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" As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now. "
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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 was terrible at school. "
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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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" Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day. "
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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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