Keira Knightley Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
-
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
-
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
-
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
-
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
-
If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
-
A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
-
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
-
Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
-
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
-
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
-
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
-
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
-
I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
-
I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.
-
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
-
Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.
-
I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
-
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.
