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
smart mean admiration
I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
queens wall home
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
adorable want
I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
frightened
I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
pigs scotland sheep
If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
movie stars children
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.
language foreign-language
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
country culture ageing
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
film
Films are just consumables.
depression should-have mental-illness
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
worry doubt always-worrying
I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
movie stars space
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.
talking careers oscars
'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
cannes-film-festival political different
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.