Quotes from 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.

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

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

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.

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All through my life what I've 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.

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 think everybody has the right to a private life.

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

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.'

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

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.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

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

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'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.

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

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.