Top 78 Keira Knightley Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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.'
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#6. Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together ... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.
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#7. What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.
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#8. A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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#9. It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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#10. 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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#12. My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita.
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#13. The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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#14. 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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#15. In the movie, you're moving, you have personality, you don't have to be great looking.
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#16. 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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#17. If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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#18. [The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.
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#19. I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance.
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#20. 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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#22. Some people say Dylan Thomas mischievous, he's a child, and other people say he's quite demonic. I don't think we should dictate about him, if that's your view of him, that's wonderful, but it's great to know that other people think differently.
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#23. I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that!
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#24. You 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.
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#25. I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole?
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#26. I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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#27. I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.
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#28. I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?
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#29. I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.
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#30. The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.
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#31. 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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#32. The celebrity thing's completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether. I couldn't have kids in the situation I'm in now. But I could just do something else. That's probably what's going to happen. I made a decision very recently that I want a life instead.
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#33. I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.
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#34. In LA, 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.
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#38. Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.
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#42. Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
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#43. My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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#44. I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.
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#45. Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.
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#47. 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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#48. I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
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#53. At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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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#56. But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
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#57. I'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs ... That reminds me- I need to go shopping!
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#58. They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy ... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.
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#59. It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.
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#60. I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.
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#61. 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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#62. I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.
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#63. If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
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#64. It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.
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#65. Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
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#69. I think that there's absolutely no point trying to force your body to be anything than what it is. I think that when you see people who are really pushing themselves to terrifying lengths to achieve what is perceived as being beautiful today, then that's just terrifying, it's really terrifying.
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#71. You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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#72. 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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#73. I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don't necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.
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#74. You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.
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#75. When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
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#76. I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.
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#77. 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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#78. It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'
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