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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.

Keira Knightley

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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Experience Family Light Myself Suffering
At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
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Comfortable Love Myself Time
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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Character Complete Fictional Greatness Human Myself Talk
My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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Day Growth Myself Parents Person Wisdom
I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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Body Life Myself Privacy Right Thinking
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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Fight Goodness Movie Myself Rare Time Word
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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Body Clothes Myself Problem Thinking
I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
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Best Conscious Decision Life Myself Possible Way
Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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Beautiful Growth Inspirational Myself Natural Photograph
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 KNIGHTLEY

Atheist Forgiveness Guilt Live Sound Yourself
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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Book Children Family Mom Myself Remember
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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Compassionate Empathy Judgement Shoes Try Yourself
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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Emotion Myself Time Try Woman
In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
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Appearance Audition Body Height Myself
Nice is the worst word.
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Nice One Liner Word Worst
I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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Difficult Digital Myself Romance See
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Hate Herself Personality Quite Understand
Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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Body Happiness Self Love Yourself
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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Age Live Mom Myself Remember Thinking Time
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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Body Different Myself Society Thinking Woman
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Cook Food Goodness Market Myself Organic
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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Drugs Escape Life Myself People Personality
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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Day Fashion Myself Thinking
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fake Quite Thinking Warmth Yourself
If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Condition Movie Myself Prison Work
The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Act Change Different Live Love Myself Project
I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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Love Myself Place Thinking World

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