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 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
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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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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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Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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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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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.
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