Kristin Scott Thomas

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

“I never raise my voice!”

“I was terrible at school.”

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

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

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

“Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.”

“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.”

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

“We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.”

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

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

“Boarding school is a wicked thing.”

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

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

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

“Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.”

“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 very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.”

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