Quotes by Kristin Scott Thomas

About Kristin Scott Thomas:

Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas is a British actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for The English Patient (1996). For her work in the theatre, she has been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress five times, winning in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull.
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In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

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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

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

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.

Kristin Scott Thomas

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...

Kristin Scott Thomas

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

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

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

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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 am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

Kristin Scott Thomas

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

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

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

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...

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I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

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Author Bio

  • NameKristin Scott Thomas
  • DescriptionBritish-French actress
  • BornMay 24, 1960
  • CountryFrance; United Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Laurence Olivier Award; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire