Quotes By Keira Knightley

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

Nice is the worst word.

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

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

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.

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 think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy.

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.

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