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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.

Keira Knightley

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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Character Complete Fictional Greatness Human Myself Talk
I think everybody has the right to a private life.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Life Myself Privacy Right Thinking
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 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
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
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
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 wasn’t allowed to do commercials. I wasn’t allowed to do TV series. I wasn’t allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Commercial Missing Movie Myself School
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
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
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Drugs Escape Life Myself People Personality
I don’t have a problem with my body. I’m not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don’t think there’s any way round, I’m absolutely fine.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Clothes Myself Problem Thinking
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
I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Love Myself Place Thinking World
Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Audience Difficult Movie People
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Cook Food Goodness Market Myself Organic

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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