Top 62 Quotes About Mr Knightley
#1. You might not see one in a hundred with
gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley.
Jane Austen
#2. And, Mr. Knightley, forget my theory about Icarus. If you don't sail high, with the risk of crashing and burning, do you really live? Can you love? I doubt it. I'm ready to fly. Love, Sam
Katherine Reay
#3. Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
Jane Austen
#4. Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
Jane Austen
#5. thoroughly supplanted Mr. Knightley, and
Jane Austen
#6. Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?
Jane Austen
#7. There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
Jane Austen
#8. Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.
Jane Austen
#9. 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.
Keira Knightley
#11. I'm sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.
Jeremy Clarkson
#12. God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover. But you understand me.
Jane Austen
#13. 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?
Keira Knightley
#14. 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.
Keira Knightley
#15. I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
Keira Knightley
#16. Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.
Jane Austen
#17. I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.
Jane Austen
#18. 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?
Keira Knightley
#19. 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.
Keira Knightley
#20. 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!
Keira Knightley
#21. 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.
Keira Knightley
#22. It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offense came not.
Jane Austen
#23. The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.
Keira Knightley
#24. 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 Knightley
#25. 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.
Keira Knightley
#26. 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.
Keira Knightley
#27. How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley ... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
Steve Carell
#28. In LA, I'm twice the size- height and everything else- of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
Keira Knightley
#29. My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
Keira Knightley
#30. The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I've done one movie, I've done that, move on.
Keira Knightley
#31. I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.
Keira Knightley
#32. Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
Keira Knightley
#34. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
Jane Austen
#35. A lesson for you, Mr. Grim: Intending an action and doing it are far from the same thing. Until you are right there, with the choice in front of you, you can only guess what you might do, and what your character might be. Are you hero or coward? Often you will guess wrong.
Violet Haberdasher
#36. It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
Keira Knightley
#37. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
#38. 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.
Keira Knightley
#39. In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.
Anna Kendrick
#40. 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.
Keira Knightley
#41. I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.
Chris Pine
#42. When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.
Kate Winslet
#43. 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.
Keira Knightley
#44. 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.
Keira Knightley
#45. Darcy's got the tempestuous masculinity and brooding looks, but Knightley is a kinder, softer man with no pretense or dissimilation.
Katherine Reay
#46. 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.'
Keira Knightley
#47. 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.
Keira Knightley
#48. 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.
Keira Knightley
#49. A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
Keira Knightley
#50. I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
Keira Knightley
#51. 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.
Keira Knightley
#52. I think Keira Knightley is amazing, and I've heard also that she is one of the coolest, most down-to-earth, brilliant girls, and I really look up to her in that respect. She's got it all, really, and I think she's made interesting, bold choices in her work.
Lily James
#54. My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita.
Keira Knightley
#55. The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
Keira Knightley
#56. 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.
Keira Knightley
#57. In the movie, you're moving, you have personality, you don't have to be great looking.
Keira Knightley
#58. 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.
Keira Knightley
#59. It was a sweet view-sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.
Jane Austen
#60. If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
Keira Knightley
#61. [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.
Keira Knightley
#62. I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance.
Keira Knightley
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