I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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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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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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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 think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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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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’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 cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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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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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 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 watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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