3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.’
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas French is a foreign language, but I’ve been speaking it since I was 18 so it’s second nature to me.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas I’m not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I’m too feeble.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas There’s something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women’s backs.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas I still absolutely love ‘The Sound of Music’ and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas 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.