I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYMy 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 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 a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it’s never going to be enough.
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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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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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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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If 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.
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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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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 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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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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 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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I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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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 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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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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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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