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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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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 everybody has the right to a private life.
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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 upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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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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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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 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 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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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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