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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIf I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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 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’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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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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.
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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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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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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I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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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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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