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 KNIGHTLEYI 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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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.
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Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
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I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
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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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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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 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’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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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.
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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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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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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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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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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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 enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
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Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
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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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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 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 always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
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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.
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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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