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 KNIGHTLEYBeauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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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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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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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.’
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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.
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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 like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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It’s a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it’s never going to be enough.
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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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 like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.
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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 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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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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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 think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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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