159 Quotes by Kristin Scott Thomas

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.