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?

Keira Knightley

Categorized in : Kind Mad Tricky

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

digital photographer people

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

Keira Knightley

know-how able break

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

Keira Knightley

wells body might

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

Keira Knightley

empathy shoes judging

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

pairs shoes matter

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

eye hurt thinking

I think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it's not something I want to think about every day.

Keira Knightley

fashion thinking

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

Keira Knightley

private-life thinking

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

guilt atheist sound

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.

Keira Knightley

beautiful people thinking

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

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

Keira Knightley

growing-up photography inspiration

Nice is the worst word.

Keira Knightley

worst nice

I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance.

Keira Knightley

romance needs thinking

It's obvious to say you can't please everybody and there are always going to be people who are going to say, I just don't like you. There's nothing I can do about that. I'm aware, probably much more aware than my harshest critic, of what my own problems are with my acting ability. I'm very, very critical of myself, and I don't ever want to not be.

Keira Knightley

acting problem people

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 think you've got to take the risks. There's no point playing it safe, because either you'll get bored or the audiences will get bored. Sometimes, you're going to make mistakes, and that's fine, but you have to take the risks. I think Pirates is one of the prime examples of that with Johnny Depp's performance, and part of the reason that people love it so much is that you watch it and go, "Gutsy, really gutsy!"

Keira Knightley

bored mistake thinking

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

Keira Knightley

shopping shoes needs

I think sometimes it's sort of easier to be playing a role based on a real person because there's quite often a lot more information, you're not making it up, it's there in books, it's there in research form. But really the questions you ask about the character, and why people behave, and where they come, and how they've ended up in the places they've ended up are the same.

Keira Knightley

real character book

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

body way thinking