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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.

Keira Knightley

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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fight Goodness Movie Myself Rare Time Word
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Goodness Medium Personality Point View
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Compassionate Empathy Judgement Shoes Try Yourself
I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Easy Myself People Person
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Day Desperate Friendship Myself Try
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fake Quite Thinking Warmth Yourself
Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Appearance Feeling Important Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Action Enjoyment Myself Purity Yourself
You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Break Learning Rule Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Costume End Life Love Movie Myself
It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Character Different Goodness Interest People
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 KNIGHTLEY

Emotion Myself Time Try Woman
If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Atheist Forgiveness Guilt Live Sound Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Murder Role Yourself
I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Difficult Digital Myself Romance See
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Book Children Family Mom Myself Remember
At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Comfortable Love Myself Time
In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Appearance Audition Body Height Myself
My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Age Live Mom Myself Remember Thinking Time
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Clothes Myself Problem Thinking
Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Audience Difficult Movie People
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fear Feeling Myself Thinking Work Worst
Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Happiness Self Love Yourself
I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Eyes Myself See Strange Time World
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.’
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Deal Discover Myself Person
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 KNIGHTLEY

Body Manipulation Movie Myself Photographer
Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Feeling Jealous Marriage Myself Parents

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