Quotes from Kristin Scott Thomas


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

    Child | Adult | Shock


    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.

    Work | Home | Theatre


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

    Women | Lucky | Older


    Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

    Love | Interest | Opposite


    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.

    Love | Women | Fall


    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.

    Please | Relief | Anyone


    I'm a late developer.

    Late | Developer


    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.

    Faster | Move | Might


    I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

    Adorable


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

    Leading | Prettier | Quite


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

    Culture | Seriously | French


    In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

    Art | Food | Mother


    Boarding school is a wicked thing.

    Wicked | Boarding


    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.

    Gang | Belong | Everybody


    If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.

    Night | Direction | Opposite


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

    Love | Beautiful | Seeing


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

    British | Fed | Films


    It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

    Good | Sweet | Fierce


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

    Life | Short


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

    Women | Sexy | Sand


       

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