173 Quotes by Keira Knightley

I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.

I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many 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.

I’ve got a lot of experience with anorexia – my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it’s not something to be taken lightly and I don’t.

I went from everyone saying, “She-can’t-act-she-can’t-act-she-can’t-act,” to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that!

I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I’m going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don’t want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don’t want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.

I went through voice coaching. I was absolutely terrified. I thought my knees were going to buckle, and the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy. I didn’t realise I was going to have to do it live.