My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

Keira Knightley

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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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Audience Difficult Movie People
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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Fight Goodness Movie Myself Rare Time Word
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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Difficult Enough Love Time Try Yourself
Nice is the worst word.
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Nice One Liner Word Worst
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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Emotion Myself Time Try Woman
In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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Greatness Movie Personality Yourself
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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Cook Food Goodness Market Myself Organic
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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End Growth Man Movie Myself
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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Consciousness Myself People Photograph Thinking
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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Change Move On Movie Myself Point Possible
You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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Break Learning Rule Yourself
Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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Feeling Jealous Marriage Myself Parents
It’s an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: ‘Wow, I’m not the person I thought I was. I’m in the middle of something and I can’t actually deal with it.’
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Deal Discover Myself Person
I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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Evidence Feeling Myself Oneself Person
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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Myself Reading Slow Strange Word
Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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Appearance Feeling Important Yourself
In film as a medium, you’re often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it’s usually a very definite point of view.
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Goodness Medium Personality Point View
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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Compassionate Empathy Judgement Shoes Try Yourself
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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Action Enjoyment Myself Purity Yourself
I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.
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Body Different Myself Society Thinking Woman
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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Hate Herself Personality Quite Understand
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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Commercial Missing Movie Myself School
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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Fake Quite Thinking Warmth Yourself
It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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Chance Movie Opportunity Yourself
The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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Character Important Judgement Play
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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Day Desperate Friendship Myself Try
I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.
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Hope Idol Myself Party Personality Talk

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