Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIn 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 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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In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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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 cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.
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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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I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.
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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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 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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If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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