I don’t quite understand what Tolstoy’s actual personal view of Anna is – whether he likes her or hates her, whether she’s the heroine or the antiheroine.
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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The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
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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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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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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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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.
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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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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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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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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