I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYThe 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’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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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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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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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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 cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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.
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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’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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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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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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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.
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My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
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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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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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 think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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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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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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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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