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" I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Worrying
About
Always
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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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" There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. "
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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 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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" You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good. "
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" Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. "
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" 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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" 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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" People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it. "
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" I was terrible at school. "
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" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "
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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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" I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do. "
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" Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced. "
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" I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions. "
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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 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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Way
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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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