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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYYou 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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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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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 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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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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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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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I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
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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 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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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