I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time – actress and mother. – Kristin Scott Thomas
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
It’s very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. – Kristin Scott Thomas
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily. – Kristin Scott Thomas
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
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. – Kristin Scott Thomas
I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom. – Kristin Scott Thomas
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. – Kristin Scott Thomas
I’d love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. – Kristin Scott Thomas
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
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character – I don’t necessarily have to agree with the director. – Kristin Scott Thomas
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
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. – Kristin Scott Thomas
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? – Kristin Scott Thomas
I like the idea that I’m making things that people might think and argue about. – Kristin Scott Thomas
Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. – Kristin Scott Thomas