I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you’re away a lot. If you’re dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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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At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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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.
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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 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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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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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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I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.
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I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I’m perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.
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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 have a problem with my body. I’m not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don’t think there’s any way round, I’m absolutely fine.
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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.
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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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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 do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you’re away a lot. If you’re dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.
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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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