Kristin Scott Thomas

“Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I...”

“If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.”

“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.”

“Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.”

“French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.”

“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...”

“People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.”

“Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.”

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