A biography for Keira Knightleyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“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 really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.”
“I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.”
“When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.”
“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.”
“I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.”
“I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.”
“I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.”