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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI’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.
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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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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’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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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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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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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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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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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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 like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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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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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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