Keira Knightley Quotes

Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I'm not deluded by the fact that I'm getting all these offers for work, I'm very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I don't believe in stardom; it is like a relationship. Today it is with you, tomorrow it might go to someone else.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter..

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

I love this business. Here today, gone, gone tomorrow. I was real gone for a while.

Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.