You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me – which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn’t do it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYAnd we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.
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I’m doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.
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I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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I wasn’t allowed to do commercials. I wasn’t allowed to do TV series. I wasn’t allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
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I’ve got a lot of experience with anorexia – my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it’s not something to be taken lightly and I don’t.
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I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
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I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.
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I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
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