It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIf 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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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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Nice is the worst word.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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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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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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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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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