Keira Knightley Quotes

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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• I just want to do my job.

  

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• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

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• I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

  

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• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

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• With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.

  

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• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

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• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

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• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

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• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

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• You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

  

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• Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

  

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• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

  

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• I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.

  

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• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  

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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.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Women
  • Today