80+ Keira Knightley Quotes (Talented, Graceful And Versatile)

Keira Knightley is an English actress best known for her roles in films such as Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Pride and Prejudice. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the film Pride and Prejudice and has won numerous awards throughout her career. Knightley is also an advocate for women's rights and has been involved in various charities.

Top 10 Keira Knightley Quotes

1. I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.
2. 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.
3. It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
8. I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
9. It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
10. It's all about perfection, isn't it?

Keira Knightley Short Quotes

• I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy.
• I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
• I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.
• The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
• Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
• Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.
• I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance.
• You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
• If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
• Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.

Keira Knightley Famous Quotes And Sayings

I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check? — Keira Knightley

I think that there's absolutely no point trying to force your body to be anything than what it is. I think that when you see people who are really pushing themselves to terrifying lengths to achieve what is perceived as being beautiful today, then that's just terrifying, it's really terrifying. — Keira Knightley

The celebrity thing's completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether. I couldn't have kids in the situation I'm in now. But I could just do something else. That's probably what's going to happen. I made a decision very recently that I want a life instead. — Keira Knightley

[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it. — Keira Knightley

You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much seen every single one of her plays, and been in a lot of rehearsal rooms, so it felt very natural and easy. It was lovely to get an opportunity to do that professionally as well. — Keira Knightley

I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person. — Keira Knightley

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

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really. — Keira Knightley

I think sometimes it's sort of easier to be playing a role based on a real person because there's quite often a lot more information, you're not making it up, it's there in books, it's there in research form. But really the questions you ask about the character, and why people behave, and where they come, and how they've ended up in the places they've ended up are the same. — Keira Knightley

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

You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting. — Keira Knightley

Be happy in your body. It's the only one you've got, so you might as well like it. — Keira Knightley

I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don't necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it. — Keira Knightley

In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view. — Keira Knightley

In L.A., I'm twice the size - height and everything else - of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition. — Keira Knightley

It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing? — Keira Knightley

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

I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that. — Keira Knightley

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words. — Keira Knightley

Some people say Dylan Thomas mischievous, he's a child, and other people say he's quite demonic. I don't think we should dictate about him, if that's your view of him, that's wonderful, but it's great to know that other people think differently. — Keira Knightley

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

My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita. — Keira Knightley

I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole? — Keira Knightley

I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does. — Keira Knightley

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do. — Keira Knightley

I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we'd so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it. — Keira Knightley

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

You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it. — Keira Knightley

I think you've got to take the risks. There's no point playing it safe, because either you'll get bored or the audiences will get bored. Sometimes, you're going to make mistakes, and that's fine, but you have to take the risks. I think Pirates is one of the prime examples of that with Johnny Depp's performance, and part of the reason that people love it so much is that you watch it and go, "Gutsy, really gutsy!" — Keira Knightley

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women. — Keira Knightley

The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities. — Keira Knightley

I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit. — Keira Knightley

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

I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it. — Keira Knightley

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

Envy is the last thing that my parents feel. — Keira Knightley

Humans who see something different than them want to hate it and tear it down. Britain had a government policy that allowed prejudice to destroy someone's life, and today there is still homophobia at home and elsewhere, like Russia or Greece. It's still a relevant discussion. While women have it better than the 1940s or '50s, sexism is still prevalent. — Keira Knightley

The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects. — Keira Knightley

Nice is the worst word. — Keira Knightley

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. — Keira Knightley

I'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs...That reminds me- I need to go shopping! — Keira Knightley

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. — Keira Knightley

I find it difficult to see the romance in digital. — Keira Knightley

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! — Keira Knightley

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

I enjoy doing an action scene. I'm not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well. — Keira Knightley

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

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

I think I always disappoint people, because they always expect someone very pretty. Very done. There’s so much pressure to be thin, blonde and busty. I’m skinny, but even I couldn’t fit into some of the clothes in L.A! In a funny kind of way, I think you create it yourself. I think it’s much better to go with the flow and embrace your body, whatever shape it is, and just be happy. — Keira Knightley

I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's the heroine or the antiheroine. — Keira Knightley

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up. — Keira Knightley

Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are. — Keira Knightley

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. — Keira Knightley

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

The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I've done one movie, I've done that, move on. — Keira Knightley

I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back. — Keira Knightley

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove. — Keira Knightley

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

Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself. — Keira Knightley

In the movie, you're moving, you have personality, you don't have to be great looking. — Keira Knightley

Life Lessons by Keira Knightley

1. Keira Knightley has demonstrated that hard work and dedication to your craft can lead to success in any career.
2. She has also shown that it is possible to maintain a successful career while still having a strong sense of self-worth and personal values.
3. Finally, her career is a testament to the importance of staying true to yourself and pursuing your dreams, no matter what obstacles may stand in your way.