“You can imagine her going into a room and being slightly nervous about it, thinking: ‘I feel really stupid right now’. I think you see yourselves in all (Austen’s) characters, all her strong women. She is the sort of person (who) comes up with all the put downs that I always think: ‘I should have said that!’ She is the person who can come up with it really quickly. So I think she is still the person I want to be and I will never get there. I am just not clever enough.”
Keira Knightley
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pemberley-state-of-mind:
“They don´t really touch. Women don´t shake hands with men. So the first time Darcy touches Elizabeth is when he helps her into the carriage. Wich is a really beautiful moment. Because it´s the first skin-on-skin touch.
I think today, we don´t think twice about that at all. I shake people´s hands, I give them a kiss, whatever. It´s interesting to think, if you don´t have that tactile nature, how important one touch can be.”
-KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
WELL, OF COURSE I WOULD REBLOG THIS.
pemberley-state-of-mind:
“This is about sex, this place, as well. That it’s about her discovering sensuality. And also that she’s not just admiring Darcy’s wealth, but she’s admiring his culture, she’s admiring his appreciation of beauty. That he has a sensitive soul. And that she loves him for his sensitivity”. (Joe Wright, Director).
“Very few people have chatted me up. Maybe I’m just a sad person and I don’t sit at enough bars.”
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Back Stage: Speaking of, it’s great to see you smile in Atonement. We rarely see you smiling in photos.
Keira: I know, but there aren’t many scenes where she actually smiles. I’m very bad at smiling in photographs. I just feel like I’m a psychopath. When you’re doing a scene and you have something to smile about, it’s easy. But when a photographer says, ‘Smile,’ I’m always like, ‘Why? What am I so happy about?’
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“I saw Keira in Pride & Prejudice where she had zero make-up. Rags instead of dresses. She was a real Cinderella, as far as I’m concerned, she was perfection incarnate.”
— Jacques Helleu, Chanel’s artistic director.
“That was my slutty dress. If you can’t do it at 21, when can you do it? I like to channel people, and I had various selections of dresses. It was fucking boiling hot that day. And I thought, this is Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface.”
“Watching writers as well, especially novelists or playwrights, watching them go into their world. My mum has always been in two places at once. Ever since I was little there was the real world, and there was the story world, and she’d be talking in the real world, but you’d know that she was actually in the story world. You know, the film we’ve just finished, she wrote the screenplay, and she lived with these characters, and I felt really sad when we actually started making the film because all of a sudden we took her characters. We’re incredibly close and I would see in a funny way it was devastating.”
— Interview in Lula
“(at a photo shoot) I’m a hooker in these pictures, and I must be a high priced one because I’m staying at the Ritz, which is good.”
“When I’m not working, I’ll put a dress on and think, yeah, that looks great. But then I’ll feel like a dickhead so I put my jeans on.”
“I hate cute, I’ve always hated cutesy. My mum used to ban the word cute. Absolutely banned.”
“I know it sounds ridiculous, but I like disappearing.”
“I always say I’ve no interest in doing a comedy because I don’t watch very many. But actually I think I am lying because the other day I saw Blades of Glory and thought it was brilliant.”
