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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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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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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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 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 think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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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In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
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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’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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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 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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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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