Kristin Scott Thomas Quotations

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

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

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

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.

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

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

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.