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.
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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
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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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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.
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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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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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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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.
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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.
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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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