Top 80 Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I wouldn’t want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

52. “As actors, we’re always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it’s not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

54. “Successful films are very dangerous things.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— 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. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

65. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

75. “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

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas

79. “Movies make you immortal and ageless.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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

— 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