Keira Knightley Quotes

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

One of the biggest things I struggle with is people's opinions. As much as I would like to say that I don't care, I see those comments. And sometimes it affects you more than others, or may completely change your mood.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

I just see many, many untruthful things. I see tone, the word tone. The tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way.The tone is such - I do get good ratings, you have to admit that.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

Little losses amaze, great tame.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person. So I don't know if I'm angry at myself for not being enough, or if I'm angry at him for not considering me to be enough.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the audience, and this is personal experiences now I’m going to tell you. It’s like you look down at the audience and see people smiling, crying, hugging each other. I want them on their way home to feel empowered like they can do anything.

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence ... penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.