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" I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods. "
Keira Knightley
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" 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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" When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything. "
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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 impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time. "
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" 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.' "
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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 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 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. "
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" I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people. "
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" At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time. "
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" I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money. "
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" It's all about perfection, isn't it? "
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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 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 really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with. "
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True
" I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. "
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" I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it. "
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" My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living. "
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" My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents. "
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" 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. "
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Beard
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" Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Nice is the worst word. "
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" 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. "
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" I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead. "
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" I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy. "
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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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" 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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