I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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 bring yourself to every role, it doesn’t matter who it is, it doesn’t matter if it’s a mass murderer, you can bring something to 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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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 like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.
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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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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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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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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I’ve always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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 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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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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
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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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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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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