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" If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

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Nature

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" There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. "

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Sand

About

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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'm a late developer. "

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Late

Developer

" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "

" I was terrible at school. "

Kristin Scott Thomas

School

Terrible

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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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Respect

" I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself! "

Kristin Scott Thomas

Want

Myself

" I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about. "

" I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up. "