Keira Knightley famous quotes

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.
-- Keira Knightley

#People #Digital #Photographer

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
-- Keira Knightley

#Shoes #Matter #Pairs

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
-- Keira Knightley

#Atheist #Guilt #Sound

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.
-- Keira Knightley

#Jealousy #Fake People #Anger

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.
-- Keira Knightley

#Mother #Home #Men

I'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs...That reminds me- I need to go shopping!
-- Keira Knightley

#Shoes #Shopping #Needs

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

#Hate #Thinking #Pirate

[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.
-- Keira Knightley

#Ideas #Yesterday #People

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
-- Keira Knightley

#Pirate #Everyday #Might

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

It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.'
-- Keira Knightley

#Interesting #Wow #Middle

Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.
-- Keira Knightley

#Suicide #Suicidal #Important

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. [The topless Interview shoot] was one of the ones where I said: 'OK, I'm fine doing the topless shot so long as you don't make them any bigger or retouch.' Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are. 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.
-- Keira Knightley

#Photography #Thinking #Long

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

#London #Organic Food #Farmers

If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
-- Keira Knightley

#Years #Acting #Hollywood

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. 
-- Keira Knightley

#Hate #Character #Dark

My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita.
-- Keira Knightley

#Doctors #Want #Drink

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

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.
-- Keira Knightley

#Thinking #Clothes #People

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 #Six #Earning

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

#Wise #Parent #Today

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

#Able #Firsts #Costumes

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

I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
-- Keira Knightley

#School #Mean #Too Much

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

#Running #Thinking #Trying

I think everybody has the right to a private life.
-- Keira Knightley

#Thinking #Private Life

I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.
-- Keira Knightley

#Sex #Fighting #Opportunity

Nice is the worst word.
-- Keira Knightley

#Nice #Worst

I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.
-- Keira Knightley

#Party #Personality #Wish

Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.
-- Keira Knightley

#Type

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
-- Keira Knightley

#Opposites #Trying #Cinema

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.
-- Keira Knightley

#Feels #Prove

I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?
-- Keira Knightley

#Hurt #Eye #Thinking

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.
-- Keira Knightley

#Different #Opinion #Film

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!
-- Keira Knightley

#Sublime #Oscars #Nominations

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.
-- Keira Knightley

#Thinking #Body #Way

They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.
-- Keira Knightley

#Kings #Strange #Fantasy

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
-- Keira Knightley

#College #Unhappy #No Friends

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

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.
-- Keira Knightley

#Lovely #Particular

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them
-- Keira Knightley

#Strange #Given #Reader

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.
-- Keira Knightley

#Character #Thinking #People

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.
-- Keira Knightley

#Character #People #Literature

Be happy in your body. It's the only one you've got, so you might as well like it.
-- Keira Knightley

#Body #Might #Wells

It's all about perfection, isn't it?
-- Keira Knightley

#Perfection

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
-- Keira Knightley

#Decision #Littles #Way

I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.
-- Keira Knightley

#People #Film

I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.
-- Keira Knightley

#People #Vision #Easier

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.
-- Keira Knightley

#People #Parent

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

#Eye #World #Strange