I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYThe most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI’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.
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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYAll 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 see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYWell, 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 KNIGHTLEYEmpathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYA lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYYou 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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYBe happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI 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 KNIGHTLEYI 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 KNIGHTLEYI’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY