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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYMy upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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 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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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 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 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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot 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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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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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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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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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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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