Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.”

“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've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.”

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

“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.”

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

“In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'”

“French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.”

“I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.”