Quotes from Kristin Scott Thomas

If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.

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 have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

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.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

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 don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

My life is European.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

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

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.