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 KNIGHTLEYI 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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’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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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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Nice is the worst word.
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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 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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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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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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