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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIt’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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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I don’t quite understand what Tolstoy’s actual personal view of Anna is – whether he likes her or hates her, whether she’s the heroine or the antiheroine.
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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 always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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