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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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Love
Man
Falling In Love
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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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Want
Little
Trap
" 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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Go For It
Try
You
" 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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Simple
Way
I Can
" I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
People
Play
Look
" In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.' "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Food
Motorcycle
Mother
" I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. "
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World
Too
Over
" I'm very good at forgetting people. "
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Very
People
Forgetting
" My life is European. "
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European
Life
My Life
" My body is a baby machine. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Body
Baby
Machine
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Work
Long
Know
" There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Sand
About
Like
" It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. "
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Career
Hard
Languages
" Life is too short to live on low-fat everything. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Life
Life Is Too Short
Live
" I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Like
Love
Contradiction
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Know
Me
People
" Films are just consumables. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Just
Films
" Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Now
Playing
Working
" I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. "
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Actress
Find
Difficult
" Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Man
Having
Than
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Me
Rest
Play
" I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Knowledge
Think
Better
" We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Women
Lucky
Older
" The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Film
Political
Different
" The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Been
Most
Parts
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Admiration
Who
You
" 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
Me
Myself
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Me
Spark
Want
" I'm very lazy! "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Lazy
Very
" As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Just
Shock
Adult
" Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Beauty
Women
Regret