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I’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.

Keira Knightley

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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Consciousness Myself People Photograph Thinking
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Difficult Enough Love Time Try Yourself
Nice is the worst word.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Nice One Liner Word Worst
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Hate Herself Personality Quite Understand
I do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you’re away a lot. If you’re dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Act Date Hard Industry Job Myself Prediction Understand
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Cook Food Goodness Market Myself Organic
It’s very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fight Goodness Movie Myself Rare Time Word
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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Age Live Mom Myself Remember Thinking Time
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Myself Reading Slow Strange Word
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Character Complete Fictional Greatness Human Myself Talk
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.’
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Deal Discover Myself Person
Half of my mum’s family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Book Children Family Mom Myself Remember
At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Comfortable Love Myself Time
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Compassionate Empathy Judgement Shoes Try Yourself
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 KNIGHTLEY

Commercial Missing Movie Myself School
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Hope Idol Myself Party Personality Talk
I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Love Myself Place Thinking World
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Fake Quite Thinking Warmth Yourself
I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Eyes Myself See Strange Time World
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Body Face Help Movie Myself Perfection Stupidity
Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Feeling Jealous Marriage Myself Parents
The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Character Important Judgement Play
I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Movie Myself People See
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

End Growth Man Movie Myself
I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Easy Myself People Person
A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Emotion Myself Time Try Woman
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Goodness Medium Personality Point View

I’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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