Keira Knightley Quotes

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.

Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.

Once the second season of 'Haven' rolled around, I really started to attack this acting thing and finally admitted, 'OK, I'm an actor now. This is what I'm doing. This is my new career.'

I didn't act professionally before going to drama school. I don't know if I had the confidence. I didn't think I'd get in when I first auditioned for drama school, and then I did.

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

I guess my break in America came a little too early. It would've been nice to have a few more years to find out what I'm like as an actor without a camera on my face.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

It was never a plan to be an actor.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I think 'Humans' has massively improved me as an actor.

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

I had agents in Australia; I just never had any auditions. And if you can't audition, then you can't work. I studied there. I did classes there. I learned how to act. Growing up there, I discovered my love for acting, but I just wasn't getting the opportunities to work professionally.

I always knew I wanted to act but I was really afraid to desire something that seemed so unrealistic and a long shot. I was a kid memorizing entire movies and TV episodes but I didn't take it seriously until I was about 19. Then I moved to New York and took it head on.

I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it's an actor who acts. And I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked constantly from the moment I left drama school, so I achieved what I set out to do. I am an actor.

A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

I remember being a teenager and saying, 'Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.' And people saying, 'You need to be a good liar - are you a good liar?'

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.