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Keira Knightley (38)

Birth:	26th March, 1985
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Model

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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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• 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.

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

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• I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.

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

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• I like watching films when I don’t know anything about the people.

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

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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.

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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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• My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

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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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• It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

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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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