In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
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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I enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
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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’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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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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 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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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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I’ve got a lot of experience with anorexia – my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it’s not something to be taken lightly and I don’t.
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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.
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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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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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