If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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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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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
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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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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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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 think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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