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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.

Keira Knightley

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
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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Difficult Enough Love Time Try Yourself
My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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Day Growth Myself Parents Person Wisdom
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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Best Conscious Decision Life Myself Possible Way
I’ve got a lot of experience with anorexia – my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it’s not something to be taken lightly and I don’t.
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Experience Family Light Myself Suffering
I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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Difficult Digital Myself Romance See
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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Day Desperate Friendship Myself Try
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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End Growth Man Movie Myself
At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
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Comfortable Love Myself Time
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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Goodness Medium Personality Point View
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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Day Fashion Myself Thinking
I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
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Easy Myself People Person
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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Commercial Missing Movie Myself School
I don’t quite understand what Tolstoy’s actual personal view of Anna is – whether he likes her or hates her, whether she’s the heroine or the antiheroine.
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Hate Herself Personality Quite Understand
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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Cook Food Goodness Market Myself Organic
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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Appearance Audition Body Height Myself
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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Emotion Myself Time Try Woman
Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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Appearance Feeling Important Yourself
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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Fortunate Greatness Myself Parents People
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Different Myself Society Thinking Woman
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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Body Face Help Movie Myself Perfection Stupidity
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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Myself Reading Slow Strange Word
I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Evidence Feeling Myself Oneself Person
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 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
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
I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Love Myself Place Thinking World

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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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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