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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.
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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 see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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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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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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.
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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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Nice is the worst word.
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Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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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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