Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

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

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.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

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.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

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

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

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

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

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

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

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

'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

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.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

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.

I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

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.

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

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

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.

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

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.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

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

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.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

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.

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.

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

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

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

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

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

Films are just consumables.

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

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

My body is a baby machine.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

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.