Keira Knightley Quotes

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.’

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.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.