All through my life what I’ve loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYBecause it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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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 always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
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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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My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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Nice is the worst word.
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In film as a medium, you’re often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it’s usually a very definite point of view.
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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they’re constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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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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The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I’ve done one movie, I’ve done that, move on.
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