I wasn’t allowed to do commercials. I wasn’t allowed to do TV series. I wasn’t allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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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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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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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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I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried 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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Nice is the worst word.
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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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Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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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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