I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI’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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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 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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.
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And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.
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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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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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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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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 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 like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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