Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYA 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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.
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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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I’ve always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.
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It’s a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it’s never going to be enough.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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You bring yourself to every role, it doesn’t matter who it is, it doesn’t matter if it’s a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
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Half of my mum’s family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.
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At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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 don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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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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 see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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It’s an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: ‘Wow, I’m not the person I thought I was. I’m in the middle of something and I can’t actually deal with it.’
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It’s very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.
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The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
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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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