159 Quotes by Kristin Scott Thomas

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.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

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

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.

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

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

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