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 KNIGHTLEYYou 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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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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 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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In film as a medium, you’re often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it’s usually a very definite point of view.
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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 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.
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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 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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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 cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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