Keira Knightley Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Keira Knightley:

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#3ef6a544

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#7fc5ebab

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.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#9742fc21

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#b1e8b037

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#582698c6

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.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#63cc9bfa

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#cd10ff91

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.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#5273e3d3

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#a27e5625

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#33f1d8c5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#e844c398

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#681134de

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#0c5f68b5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#3f5742cf

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#36497a6b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#4699478e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#9e641a6c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#82e78b03

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#a0a96ecb

Nice is the worst word.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#8d1265d6

I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#0e0a72cb

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#337a5c30

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.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#5c9ed413

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#70a363b9

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#32a03776

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#aec78271

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#9f2d3b6f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#ed6506fa

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#1b0c7b25

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#e095ae38

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#8cb10505

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#67a984c6

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#836cc6fd

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#29c129de

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#d1a31e11

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.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#44483970

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.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#7e2f5880

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#12865f5a

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.
~Keira Knightley


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/keira-knightley-quotes/#34f1f357

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