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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIn the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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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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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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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 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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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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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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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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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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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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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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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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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