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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.

Keira Knightley

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 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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Fake Quite Thinking Warmth Yourself
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
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
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
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Costume End Life Love Movie Myself
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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Fight Goodness Movie Myself Rare Time Word
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
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 like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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Movie Myself People See
Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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Beautiful Growth Inspirational Myself Natural Photograph
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
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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Fear Feeling Myself Thinking Work Worst
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
Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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Appearance Feeling Important Yourself
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
You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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Break Learning Rule Yourself
If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Atheist Forgiveness Guilt Live Sound Yourself
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Character Complete Fictional Greatness Human Myself Talk
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
The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I’ve done one movie, I’ve done that, move on.
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Change Move On Movie Myself Point Possible
It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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Chance Movie Opportunity Yourself
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
Nice is the worst word.
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Nice One Liner Word Worst
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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Hope Idol Myself Party Personality Talk
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
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 feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.

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