Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas, DBEis an English actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Four Weddings and a Funeraland received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for The English Patient. For her work in the theatre, she has been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress five times, winning in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth24 May 1960
character want gains
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.
character giving stories
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
character thinking play
I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
mother character two
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
english-actress happiness people sort
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.
sweet mean people
It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
two favorites-things baths
Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
school leftovers gang
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.
thinking two long
After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
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.
men numbers giving
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.
morning sitting dull
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.