Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI think everybody has the right to a private life.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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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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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.’
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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 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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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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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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 like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
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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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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.
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My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
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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’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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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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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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.
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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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At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
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