159 Quotes by Kristin Scott Thomas

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.