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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.

Keira Knightley

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
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 KNIGHTLEY

Fortunate Greatness Myself Parents People
The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Act Change Different Live Love Myself Project
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Difficult Enough Love Time Try Yourself
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 KNIGHTLEY

Deal Discover Myself Person
In film as a medium, you’re often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it’s usually a very definite point of view.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Goodness Medium Personality Point View
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

Emotion Myself Time Try Woman
I’m doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

End Growth Man Movie Myself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fight Goodness Movie Myself Rare Time Word
If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Atheist Forgiveness Guilt Live Sound Yourself
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 see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Eyes Myself See Strange Time World
I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Best Conscious Decision Life Myself Possible Way
Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Audience Difficult Movie People
Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Appearance Feeling Important Yourself
Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Happiness Self Love Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Day Desperate Friendship Myself Try
I think everybody has the right to a private life.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Life Myself Privacy Right Thinking
You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Break Learning Rule Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Book Children Family Mom Myself Remember
It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Character Different Goodness Interest People
I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Movie Myself People See
In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Greatness Movie Personality Yourself
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 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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Day Fashion Myself Thinking
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Compassionate Empathy Judgement Shoes Try Yourself

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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