Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

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, Different

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Around, Anyone, Please

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.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Parents, Feeling, Rather

Movies make you immortal and ageless.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Movies, Immortal, Ageless

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

Confidence, Working, Lose

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Love, Films, Stick

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Playing, Films, British

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Life, Live, Everything

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Acting, Patient, English

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Time, Long, Someone

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.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Respect, Character, Playing

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Asked, React, Extreme

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Child, Adult, Shock

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
Kristin Scott Thomas

School, Else, Wanted

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Two, Three, Favorite

Boarding school is a wicked thing.
Kristin Scott Thomas

School, Wicked, Boarding

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Turn, Grab, Trap

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Hate, Everyone, Doctor

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

Give, Makes, Hand

Films are just consumables.
Kristin Scott Thomas

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Less, Culture, Seriously

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Nature, Since, Language

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Everything, Career, Sure

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Actually, Quite, Leading

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Love, Beautiful, Girl

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Nationality: English

Born: May 24, 1960

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