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" We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Women
Lucky
Older
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" I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now. "
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" I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. "
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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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" I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look. "
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" I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work. "
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" I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up. "
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" Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor. "
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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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People
Face
Focus
" Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people. "
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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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Six
Tiny
Father
" 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
" Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. "
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Little
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" I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it. "
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Sound
Still
Love
" Boarding school is a wicked thing. "
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Thing
School
Boarding School
" I'm very lazy! "
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Very
" 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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Rest
Play
" 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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Want
" 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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Afraid
Good
" 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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Work
Long
Know
" If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different. "
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Best
Feeling
People
" 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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People
Assume
Edge
" 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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People
" My body is a baby machine. "
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Body
Baby
Machine
" 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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Good
" The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted. "
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" Movies make you immortal and ageless. "
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" I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things. "
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