Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

An actor has to embody a role.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

Acting is very start and stop.

Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.

I started acting when I was 9.

I'm here to play different characters.

I started in theatre when I was 13 or 14 years old and did a lot of theatre until my early thirties. Off-Broadway stuff - off-off-off-off-Broadway stuff - and I do love it.

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

I love to act.

More than anything else, I love to act and leave the rest to my director.

I am open to playing character roles.

As an actor I am prepared for every role, that's my profession.

I am an actor, I can do any role.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.