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.
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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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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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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 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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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’ve always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.
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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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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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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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