A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI’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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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 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 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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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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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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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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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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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’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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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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break 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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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 like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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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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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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