Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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.
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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 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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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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I don’t have a problem with my body. I’m not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don’t think there’s any way round, I’m absolutely fine.
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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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 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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