If I saw a battle, I’d run in the other direction. I’m not strong in that way at all. But I’m certainly someone who has always known what I wanted and tried to get it.

Keira Knightley: Knightley Magic - Vanity Fair by Mario Testino, April 2004

Keira Knightley photographed by Ellen von Unwerth for Harper’s Bazaar UK, September 2012

Keira Knightley photographed by Ellen von Unwerth for Vogue Italia, January 2011

Keira Knightley photographed by Ellen von Unwerth for Vogue Italia, January 2011

I think shame is a deeply difficult thing to live with, and I think she breaks her own moral code. What happens to your own perception of yourself when you break your own moral code? You always make yourself into the heroine, but equally you have self-hatred. She is the heroine and the anti- heroine. She is the perfect narcissist. She hates herself and she loves herself. 
Keira Knightley on playing the title role in ‘Anna Karenina’

Keira Knightley walking on a beach in Corsica (2013)

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