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.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
Kristin Scott Thomas

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
Kristin Scott Thomas

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
Kristin Scott Thomas

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
Kristin Scott Thomas

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Movies make you immortal and ageless.
Kristin Scott Thomas

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
Kristin Scott Thomas

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
Kristin Scott Thomas

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Kristin Scott Thomas