Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas, DBEis an English actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Four Weddings and a Funeraland received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for The English Patient. For her work in the theatre, she has been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress five times, winning in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth24 May 1960
Kristin Scott Thomas quotes about
jobs home people
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.
want way actresses
I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
successful wanted
The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
successful actors ifs
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
falling-in-love men young
Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.
movie ageless immortal
Movies make you immortal and ageless.
sticks shooting film
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
appreciate long parent
It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
class people film
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
two favorites-things baths
Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
vision acting months
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
sexy sweat sand
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
children adults shock
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
fun acting different
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.