The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I’ve done one movie, I’ve done that, move on.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI don’t have a problem with my body. I’m not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don’t think there’s any way round, I’m absolutely fine.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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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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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 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 think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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 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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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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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 like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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 think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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