I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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 wasn’t allowed to do commercials. I wasn’t allowed to do TV series. I wasn’t allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
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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 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 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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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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.
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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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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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 think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.
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You bring yourself to every role, it doesn’t matter who it is, it doesn’t matter if it’s a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.
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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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