I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
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.
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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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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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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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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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 think everybody has the right to a private life.
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I 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.
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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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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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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