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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

I do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you’re away a lot. If you’re dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.
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Act Date Hard Industry Job Myself Prediction Understand
The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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Character Important Judgement Play
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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Day Fashion Myself Thinking
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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Body Manipulation Movie Myself Photographer
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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Appearance Audition Body Height Myself
I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.
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Consciousness Myself People Photograph Thinking
Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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Body Happiness Self Love Yourself
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.
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Action Enjoyment Myself Purity Yourself
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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Fortunate Greatness Myself Parents People
In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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Greatness Movie Personality Yourself
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.
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Experience Family Light Myself Suffering
All through my life what I’ve loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
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Costume End Life Love Movie Myself
I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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Movie Myself People See
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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Easy Myself People Person
I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.
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Fake Quite Thinking Warmth Yourself
Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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Audience Difficult Movie People
I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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Body Life Myself Privacy Right Thinking
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.
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Commercial Missing Movie Myself School
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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Deal Discover Myself Person
Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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Feeling Jealous Marriage Myself Parents
I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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Difficult Digital Myself Romance See
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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Book Children Family Mom Myself Remember
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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Cook Food Goodness Market Myself Organic
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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Myself Reading Slow Strange Word
I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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Evidence Feeling Myself Oneself Person
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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Compassionate Empathy Judgement Shoes Try Yourself
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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Character Complete Fictional Greatness Human Myself Talk

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