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I think I always disappoint p...

I think I always disappoint people, because they always expect someone very pretty. Very done. There’s so much pressure to be thin, blonde and busty. I’m skinny, but even I couldn’t fit into some of the clothes in L.A! In a funny kind of way, I think you create it yourself. I think it’s much better to go with the flow and embrace your body, whatever shape it is, and just be happy.

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You already feel unsure of yo...

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 144 quotes

It's fantastic to have the op...

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Keira Knightley 144 quotes

I cook. I go to farmers marke...

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

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I find more interesting roles...

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 see the world through my ey...

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

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What's nice about playing som...

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.

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But acting is very much a pro...

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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My upbringing is why I am the...

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

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A lot of times in cinema toda...

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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The whole point for me is to ...

The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I've done one movie, I've done that, move on.

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I don't quite understand what...

I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's the heroine or the antiheroine.

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I love costume dramas, I love...

I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

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I think that there's absolute...

I think that there's absolutely no point trying to force your body to be anything than what it is. I think that when you see people who are really pushing themselves to terrifying lengths to achieve what is perceived as being beautiful today, then that's just terrifying, it's really terrifying.

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I don't read my reviews. Unle...

I don't read my reviews. Unless I'm unfortunate enough to catch something by accident, which happens, and it's always a bad review. Always, it's amazing. I will be sitting in a caf?, and I will open a random paper right to the page of the review.... And then you're sucked in and go home and never want to go out again.

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I think women's bodies are a ...

I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

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I think sometimes it's sort o...

I think sometimes it's sort of easier to be playing a role based on a real person because there's quite often a lot more information, you're not making it up, it's there in books, it's there in research form. But really the questions you ask about the character, and why people behave, and where they come, and how they've ended up in the places they've ended up are the same.

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I’ve noticed that the people ...

I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.

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When I was about 5 I think, I...

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

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The thing about great fiction...

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. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up.

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