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" It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Career
Hard
Languages
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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 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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" As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. "
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" French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. "
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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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" I never raise my voice! "
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" My body is a baby machine. "
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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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" 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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Political
Different
" We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me. "
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Different
Fine
" We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. "
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Lucky
Older
" I'm very lazy! "
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Very
" 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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Always
My Own
" 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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Move
" I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about. "
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People
" I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. "
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I Am
" I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. "
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" I just don't see very many films. Because I make them. "
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See
Just
Make
" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "
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Long
Long Time
Thinking
" 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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Day
Morning
Sitting
" 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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Like
More
Relief
" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "
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Mother
Difficult
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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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Fierce
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Good
" You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you. "
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" I'm a late developer. "
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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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" There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. "
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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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" 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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" 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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