If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
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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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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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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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