A biography for Kristin Scott Thomashasn’t been written yet.
“Films are just consumables.”
“I'm a late developer.”
“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.”
“We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.”
“It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.”
“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.”
“Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.”
“My life is European.”
“French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.”
“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 think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.”
“French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.”
“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.”
“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'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.”
“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.”
“The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.”
“I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.”
“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 never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?”