Kristin Scott Thomas

“Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.”

“If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.”

“I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.”

“I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.”

“I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.”

“I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.”

“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.”

“Movies make you immortal and ageless.”

“I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.”

“French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.”

“As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.”

“I'm very wary of trust, you see.”

“There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.”

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

“Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.”

“Les films ne sont que des consommables.”