Quotes from Kristin Scott Thomas

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.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

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

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

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

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

I never raise my voice!

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.

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.

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 am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

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

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

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

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.