I enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYA lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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 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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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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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 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.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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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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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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for 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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