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 KNIGHTLEYBeauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.
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Nice is the worst word.
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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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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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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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
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I’ve always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.
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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 always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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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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