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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it’s not something I want to think about every day.
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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 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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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
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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 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 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.
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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.
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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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