Top 80 Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a late developer.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

2. “I’m a bit of a Doubting Thomas – always worrying about things.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

4. “I’m not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

5. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

7. “As an adult, it’s a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it’s just hideous, ghastly.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

8. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

11. “French culture takes ageing very seriously. There’s much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

12. “I was terrible at school.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

15. “Men don’t fall in love with me – only young ones.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

17. “Boarding school is a wicked thing.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

18. “My body is a baby machine.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

20. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

22. “People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

23. “My children are lovely. They’re perfect.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

24. “I’m very good at forgetting people.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

25. “I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words ‘ice queen’ attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There’s this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

27. “I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

28. “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

29. “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.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

30. “The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you’re visually massive or somehow you’re in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

36. “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.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

37. “I still absolutely love ‘The Sound of Music’ and anything with Julie Andrews in it.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

39. “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.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

40. “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

41. “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.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

42. “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.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

43. “You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you’re pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you’re sane.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

44. “I’m not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I’m too feeble.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

45. “I never raise my voice!”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

46. “Films are just consumables.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

47. “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.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

48. “Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn’t have had any children.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

49. “People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They’re not afraid of them. It’s one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas