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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

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Keira Knightley
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 26
Actor
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Film Actor
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Keira Christina Knightley
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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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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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If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
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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 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.
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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.
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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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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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It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.
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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?
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When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
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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.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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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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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.
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[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.
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