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Kristin Scott Thomas
English
Actress
About the author
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#People
#Nothing
#Mother
Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#Want
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#Time
#Mother
People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#People
#Saying
#English
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,
English
Actress
#School
Movies make you immortal and ageless.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#Movies
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,
English
Actress
#People
#Feeling
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,
English
Actress
#Want
#People
#Being
#Emotions
#Faults
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#Acting
#English
#Months
I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#Being
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,
English
Actress
Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#Man
#Leading
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#People
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Kristin Scott Thomas,
English
Actress
#Women