159 Quotes by Kristin Scott Thomas

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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