Keira Knightley Quotes

It's important for young people to know that they are made the way they are made and they're beautiful and that's how they're supposed to be.

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

Everyone's bodies are different, and we all have different shapes, but it has nothing to do with who you are.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

When I was younger, I didn't have any inspiration to like the skin I was in.

Your body is not your art - it's your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.

Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for physical appearances.

I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

I'm not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.

I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody... to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.

I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

I want the world to see my body.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

I don't think what I look like is relevant.