Keira Knightley Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Crazy, Moving, Kids

  The Breaking News Article, www.breakingnews.ie. February 05, 2007.

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• I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we'd so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it.

  Keira Knightley

  Thinking, Years, Cake

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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.

  Keira Knightley

  Guy, Growing, Beard

  "A Conversation With Keira Knightley". Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 10, 2003.

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• It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

  Keira Knightley

  Fighting, Scripts, Film

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

  Keira Knightley

  Book, Kids, Wizards

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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

  Taken, School, Grandmother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing?

  Keira Knightley

  Mad, Kind, Tricky

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Sexy, Use, Computer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Keira Knightley

  Thinking, Earning, Six

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• In L.A., I'm twice the size - height and everything else - of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.

  Keira Knightley

  Height, Auditions, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.

  Keira Knightley

  Jobs, Two, Different

  "TIFF 2014: Keira Knightley on sexism and spy games". Interview with Barry Hertz, www.macleans.ca. September 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Views

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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.

  Keira Knightley

  Stories, Stitches, Able

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• I went through voice coaching. I was absolutely terrified. I thought my knees were going to buckle, and the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy. I didn't realise I was going to have to do it live.

  Keira Knightley

  Couple, Boys, Voice

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting.

  Keira Knightley

  Men, Thinking, Asking For Help

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• I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.

  Keira Knightley

  People, Mates

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• 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.

  Keira Knightley

  Sex, Long, Want

  "Listen to Keira Knightley & Director Tony Scott Talk Domino". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. October 13, 2005.

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• 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.

  Keira Knightley

  Stupid, Would Be, Looks

  "Keira Knightley Talks Pride and Prejudice" by Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

  Keira Knightley

  Different, Body, Photographer

  "Is Keira Knightley's topless photoshoot the best form of protest?" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2014.

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