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" What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there. "

Keira Knightley

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

" It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.' "

Keira Knightley

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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. "

Keira Knightley

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" It's all about perfection, isn't it? "

Keira Knightley

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" Nice is the worst word. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with. "

" I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. "

" I think everybody has the right to a private life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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