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" 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

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" Successful films are very dangerous things. "

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" Films are just consumables. "

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" When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing. "

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

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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'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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" 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 think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave. "

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" If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. "

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" The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity. "

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" Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people. "

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" My children are lovely. They're perfect. "

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" Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. "

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" It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents. "

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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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" We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. "

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" Movies make you immortal and ageless. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor. "

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" Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day. "

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" People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different. "

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" We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me. "

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