Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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 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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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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Nice is the worst word.
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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.
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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 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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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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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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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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