You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIn the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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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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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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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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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In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
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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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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 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 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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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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