Top 33 Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

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

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

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

I just don’t see very many films. Because I make them.

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

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

There’s something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women’s backs.

When I speak English, I’ve been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that’s very irritating. It’s the whole class thing.

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.

Films are just consumables.

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

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

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.

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

I think I’m inspired mostly by other artists that aren’t actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

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

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

‘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!

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

I’m a late developer.

You don’t choose a film because it’s made by a woman, you choose it because it’s good.

I’m very good at forgetting people.

I tend to do things that I’m very frightened of. That’s what I do.

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

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.

I really like acting in French. It’s actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It’s fun acting in a foreign language. You’re liberated or freed from preconceptions.

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

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We’re just submerged.

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

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time – actress and mother.

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.

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.