Top 80 Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

53. “Successful films are very dangerous things.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

56. “I don’t want to have to be pretty. I don’t want to have to be adorable.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

57. “I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

58. “It’s very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

59. “Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence – then you’re told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

60. “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.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

61. “I can’t move back to England. My home is in France now. I’d love to but I can’t. My family’s all there now.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

62. “I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone’s head off with a look.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

63. “I mean, if you’re being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who’s really smart, it’s great. If you’re being told what to do by a nincompoop – and luckily that hasn’t happened very often – it can be very frustrating.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

64. “I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character – I don’t necessarily have to agree with the director.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

66. “I love shooting French films because I don’t have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

67. “Often, the roles I’m offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

68. “The parts I’ve been most successful in are the ones I’ve desperately, desperately wanted.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

70. “I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

71. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

73. “Movies make you immortal and ageless.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

74. “Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing – you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

76. “I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

77. “If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

80. “You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

82. “I’d love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

83. “I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

85. “As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: ‘This is me playing this character. And aren’t I fantastic!’ I don’t feel that so much now.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

86. “I’m very wary of trust, you see.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

88. “Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you’re working opposite thrilling people.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas