A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYBigger 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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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 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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You bring yourself to every role, it doesn’t matter who it is, it doesn’t matter if it’s a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.
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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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 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 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 find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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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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