I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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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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.
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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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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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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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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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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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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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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