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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like 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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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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I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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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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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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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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 always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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