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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYBe happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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 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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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 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 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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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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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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