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" You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
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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 find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. "
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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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" Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. "
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" I'm a late developer. "
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" There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. "
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" I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am. "
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" I never raise my voice! "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Raise
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Never
" 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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" We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Women
Lucky
Older
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Mother
Nothing
People
" 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
" I was terrible at school. "
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School
Terrible
" 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. "
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Me
Spark
Want
" I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel. "
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Way
Feel
Which
" 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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Beautiful
Girl
I Am
" The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted. "
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Been
Most
Parts
" French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Seriously
Culture
Less
" We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Me
Different
Fine
" If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Direction
Run
Opposite
" You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Costs
Much
How
" I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Adorable
Pretty
Want
" As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. "
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Just
Shock
Adult
" 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. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
Best
Feeling
People
" 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
" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "
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Long
Long Time
Thinking
" I'm very good at forgetting people. "
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Very
People
Forgetting
" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "
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Mother
Difficult
Two
" 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