Quotes by Kristin 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.
• Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
• I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
• People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
• 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.
• Movies make you immortal and ageless.
• 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.
• 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.
• Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
• I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
• I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
• Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
• I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
• There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.