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.’
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIt’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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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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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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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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.
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Nice is the worst word.
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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 always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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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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 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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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