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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIt’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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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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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 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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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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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 think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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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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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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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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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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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 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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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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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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 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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
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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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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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