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Keira Knightley

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ANNA KENDRICK I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know wher...
LAURA HADDOCK When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with suc...
KATHERINE KELLY I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one o...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you&...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.
KEELEY HAWES I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
KEELEY HAWES I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether it's in film, TV or theat...
ROXANNE MCKEE When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I lov...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I have been spoken to with regards to the role of Hepburn
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY He was completely amazing, ... He did love having six women around him all the time. We took him to ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Yes, I have breasts. So does 50% of the population. Do we really have to waste time talking about mi...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY 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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY For me it is a story about growing up, making mistakes and falling in love and I think that's as rel...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Bend It Like Beckham
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY All of us can do something to support this fantastic work and it will make a real difference.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It's brilliant that this dress has raised this much. I know it will go a long way to help the people...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I was supposed to be gutted but that's all nonsense. I'm happy as I am. I'm single and not looking f...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY You go back to the sort of Errol Flynn movies, and the real swashbuckling kind of things, and yeah, ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY [She smiles.] Put on some sunscreen, ... and I was ready to go.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I wanted to put up a 'Do Not Disturb' sign because I was so embarrassed about anyone going in.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY He just laughed at me.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I can't. I haven't shaved my legs.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I have seen the TV reports on the horrendous drought in East Africa and I know how desperate things ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I thought, God, it's a strong person who says, 'Yes, you can take my name and you can do with it wha...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY she says. ''You never know what people are going to go for and what they aren't. It's an unforeseeab...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY a scruffy tomboy kid, with holes in her jeans.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be blown down. People keep losing...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I've got a kind, close-knit family group,
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I know acting is a profession where one minute, you're hot and the next minute, it can all go away,
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY My name is Domino Harvey (My name is Domino Harvey), ... I am a bounty hunter (I am a bounty hunter)...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It's awful,
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Pirates of the Caribbean
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Good day Mr. Turner.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was gett...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY They have made me look a total babe on the front
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I like my stomach, but it's really annoying because apparently, now, you're not allowed to show your...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It's all about perfection, isn't it?
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed t...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Nice is the worst word.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in ...
RUSSELL BAKER He who studies MA in English Literature but fears the name Shakespeare is one who studies shadow but...
VIKRANT PARSAI My master's degree was in English literature.
SYLVIA BROWNE English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty th...
XIAOLU GUO For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the B...
LAFCADIO HEARN For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and ...
THOMAS BULFINCH The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of ...
ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, s...
GERALD BRENAN I studied English Literature. I wasn't a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN 'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English c...
EDWARD P. JONES I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.
MIRIAM MARGOLYES I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.
PRINCESS EUGENIE OF YORK Badly done, Emma!
JANE AUSTEN It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in En...
LAFCADIO HEARN If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.
ABHIJIT NASKAR One of our best managers, her second language is English. We needed her to get better at English to ...
BETH WILSON My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one ...
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had ...
TARON EGERTON Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the America...
WALLACE STEVENS [...] and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teach...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Wolverine is one of the best characters ever created in fiction. I blew it by not coming up with the...
STAN LEE All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON The best bit about being an Englishman abroad is not being subject to the English weather or, in fac...
LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and h...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could b...
AARON CIECHANOVER Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is v...
BEN OKRI My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite un...
AMITABH BACHCHAN The literary community is very rich. The Haitian culture stands out as unique, especially the litera...
DAVID BROWN Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns ...
RIDLEY SCOTT With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way...
MARK HADDON At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Mau...
WILBUR SMITH I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and sta...
AZAR NAFISI The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And...
JOHN MCWHORTER All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n...
JONATHAN MILLER I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and tr...
NATALIE MASSENET Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
CAMILO JOSE CELA Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
CAMILO CELA I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some bo...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an ...
EDITH GROSSMAN Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet tryin...
ROBERT GRAVES Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in th...
HENRY JAMES English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Lit...
THOMAS C. FOSTER The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is...
ROBERT BENCHLEY At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master'...
JOSEPH KANON It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects...
GEORGE ORWELL I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion maj...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bas...
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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I wanted to put up a 'Do Not Disturb' sign because I was so embarrassed about anyone going in.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY He just laughed at me.
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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I thought, God, it's a strong person who says, 'Yes, you can take my name and you can do with it wha...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY she says. ''You never know what people are going to go for and what they aren't. It's an unforeseeab...
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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be blown down. People keep losing...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I've got a kind, close-knit family group,
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I know acting is a profession where one minute, you're hot and the next minute, it can all go away,
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY My name is Domino Harvey (My name is Domino Harvey), ... I am a bounty hunter (I am a bounty hunter)...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It's awful,
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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Good day Mr. Turner.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was gett...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY They have made me look a total babe on the front
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I like my stomach, but it's really annoying because apparently, now, you're not allowed to show your...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It's all about perfection, isn't it?
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed t...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Nice is the worst word.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY No answer I could provide to that question could possibly serve my own future interests." Sarek stra...
KEIRA MARCOS We do tend to overreact when we feel threatened. Men, I mean.
KEIRA KROFT A lot of places away from the east are not going to get any snow although they might get the odd flu...
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JAMES KNIGHTLEY Today's data is very weak, which adds to our concern about the prospects for consumer activity and t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Average earnings growth was far softer than anticipated. It remained at 3.5% ... and is well below t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY We're probably going to get two members who go for a cut. The data isn't pointing in one direction e...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Inflationary pressures are gradually easing, which should offer scope for interest rate cuts, but ne...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Hurricane insurance payouts will not recur, we expect the deficit to narrow sharply again in Q4 2005...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Hurricane insurance payouts will not recur, we expect the deficit to narrow sharply again in Q4 2005...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Euro-zone data flow this morning will encourage further hawkish rhetoric from the ECB.
JAMES KNIGHTLEY A 'no change' outcome looks virtually certain.
JAMES KNIGHTLEY The risk for the U.S. is that the housing market there may slow markedly, so you can actually argue ...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Vomit began to spill out of me like pea soup, splattering the road with champagne and caviar, long i...
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