Keira Knightley Quotes
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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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When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
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I think it's great that the discussions are finally being allowed to be had about feminism, as opposed to anybody mentioning feminism and everybody going, 'Oh, fucking shut up.' Somehow, feminism became a dirty word. I thought it was really weird for a long time, and I think it's great that we're coming out of that
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I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
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I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.
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Jesus, if I know one thing about the industry, it's that it's a moment. A flash in the pan. That's what's lovely about it. But it's hard, because one moment you're the hot thing, and the next moment - you're not. And there's no rhyme or reason for it.
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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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It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.
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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 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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I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
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I haven't got a clue about how much I weigh. I do not own any scales. And I have noticed it creates an anger in people who are not skinny. People like to blame their insecurities on other people.
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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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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.