Quotes by Keira Knightley

“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.”

“Its not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.”

“I think every girl is looking for her Mr Darcy.”

“Im doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.”

“They have made me look a total babe on the front”

“Its all about perfection, isnt it?”

“He was completely amazing, ... He did love having six women around him all the time. We took him to a party one night but he was wearing a mask, because he cant be around cigarettes but felt anyone who wanted to smoke could, so he came with a little mask he wore.”

“Ive got a kind, close-knit family group,”

“Theyre all fab and they tell me when Im acting up and laugh at me as much as possible, which is important.”

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really dont have any rehearsal time in film. You dont 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 isnt the film side.

All through my life what Ive 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.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that theyre constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

If only I wasnt an atheist, I could get away with anything. Youd just ask for forgiveness and then youd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

I dont think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I dont think you can fake it.