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" Movies make you immortal and ageless. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Ageless
You
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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'm very wary of trust, you see. "
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" Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. "
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" We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. "
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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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" 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 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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" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "
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" Films are just consumables. "
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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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" Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones. "
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" I'm very lazy! "
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Very
" If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily. "
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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 do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom. "
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I Am
Want
" My children are lovely. They're perfect. "
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Lovely
Children
" French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. "
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Culture
Less
" I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about. "
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Think
People
" With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7. "
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Job
People
" 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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Morning
Sitting
" 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'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. "
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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. "
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" 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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" I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory. "
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" I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it. "
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