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Kristin Scott Thomas

Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas, DBE (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award nominee and five-time Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The English Patient (1996).

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

Drawer, Drawers, Europe, Lucky, Shoved

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

England, Filled, Offered, Past, Regret, Roles

'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

Careers, Life, Oscars, Point, Talking, Turning

I'm a late developer.

Developer, Developers, Late

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

Always Worrying, Doubt, Doubting, Thomas, Worry, Worrying

I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.

Cautious, Heart, Pour, Say, Want, World

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin. . . Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

Focus, People, Skins, Stuff, Traits

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.

Actors, Character, Fantastic, Gain, Want, Younger

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

Father, Mean, Memories, Six, Tiny

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

People, Shines, Shining, Think, Thinking

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

Interest, Opposites, People, Thrilling, Working

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

Bored, Screen, Screens, See, Want

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

Actually, Benz, Cost, Costs, Think, Thinking

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.

Day, Home, Jobs, People, Towards, Usually

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.

Failures, Faults, People, Qualities, Quality, Use

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

Art, Fact, Mother, Quite, Reading, Zen

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

Desperately, Ones, Parts, Successful, Wanted

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

Mean, Nicer, People, Sweet

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

Ageing, Ageism, Countries, Country, French Culture, Takes

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Actors, Ifs, Labelled, Quickly, Successful, Tend

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