Scott Thomas
Scott Thomas
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.
appreciate long parent
It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
children adults shock
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
film
Films are just consumables.
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.
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!
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.