It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
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I’m doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.
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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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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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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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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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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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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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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.
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