Quotes from Kristin Scott Thomas

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

My body is a baby machine.

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.

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.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

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

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

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

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

I'm a late developer.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.