You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIf I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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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 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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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.
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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.
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At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
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I don’t have a problem with my body. I’m not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don’t think there’s any way round, I’m absolutely fine.
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I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
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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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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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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 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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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’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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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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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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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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 see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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I enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
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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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