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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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Keira Knightley
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 26
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Keira Christina Knightley
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I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.
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I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.
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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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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.
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I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance.
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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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I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
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I'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs...That reminds me- I need to go shopping!
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It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.
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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.
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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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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.
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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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I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.
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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 think everybody has the right to a private life.
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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.
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I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
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