I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIt’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
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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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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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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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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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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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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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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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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