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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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I think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it’s not something I want to think about every day.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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I’ve got a lot of experience with anorexia – my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it’s not something to be taken lightly and I don’t.
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I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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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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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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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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I enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
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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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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 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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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 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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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.
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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’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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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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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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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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Nice is the worst word.
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