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.

I don\'t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don\'t think you can fake it.

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

I don\'t think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don\'t think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I\'m good, I can say I\'m trying to be an actor, but I don\'t think I\'ve completely made it.

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I\'ve been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

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

I see the world through my eyes. It\'s sometimes a strange world. - Keira Knightley I see the world through my eyes. It\'s sometimes a strange world.

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.

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.

What\'s nice about playing somebody real is that generally there\'s more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you\'d otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

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.

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they\'re comfortable with.

It\'s fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you\'re just like, \'Oh, I\'d love to work at home.\'

It\'s all about perfection, isn\'t it?

Nice is the worst word.

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

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.

They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.

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.

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. [The topless Interview shoot] was one of the ones where I said: 'OK, I'm fine doing the topless shot so long as you don't make them any bigger or retouch.' Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are. 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

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.

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

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've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.

The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.

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!\'

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.