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 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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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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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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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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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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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.
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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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