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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
Actress
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
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Voice Actor
Keira Christina Knightley
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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 am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them
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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 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'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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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 don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.
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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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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'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs...That reminds me- I need to go shopping!
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I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.
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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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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 like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.
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I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.
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Nice is the worst word.
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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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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 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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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?
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