You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me – which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn’t do it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYEmpathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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 like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.
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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 cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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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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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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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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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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.
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You bring yourself to every role, it doesn’t matter who it is, it doesn’t matter if it’s a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.
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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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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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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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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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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