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Keira Knightley

In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Appearance Audition Body Height Myself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Different Myself Society Thinking Woman
In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Greatness Movie Personality Yourself
The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Act Change Different Live Love Myself Project
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Hope Idol Myself Party Personality Talk
It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Chance Movie Opportunity Yourself
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 KNIGHTLEY

Difficult Enough Love Time Try Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Experience Family Light Myself Suffering
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fight Goodness Movie Myself Rare Time Word
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Decision Hell Money Movie Myself Quite Right Thinking Time
I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I’m perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Face Help Movie Myself Perfection Stupidity
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.’
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Deal Discover Myself Person
It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Character Different Goodness Interest People
The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I’ve done one movie, I’ve done that, move on.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Change Move On Movie Myself Point Possible
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 KNIGHTLEY

Body Manipulation Movie Myself Photographer
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Myself Reading Slow Strange Word
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Compassionate Empathy Judgement Shoes Try Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Consciousness Myself People Photograph Thinking
I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Evidence Feeling Myself Oneself Person
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Day Desperate Friendship Myself Try
My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Day Growth Myself Parents Person Wisdom
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Act Date Hard Industry Job Myself Prediction Understand
I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Admire Myself Rich Shoes
Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Beautiful Growth Inspirational Myself Natural Photograph
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fake Quite Thinking Warmth Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fear Feeling Myself Thinking Work Worst
My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Age Live Mom Myself Remember Thinking Time

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