"I know for a fact the work is going to dry up, and people will get bored of me. That's not bitterness, just the truth."

"In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be blown down. People keep losing interest in faces because new ones come along every single second. I'm one at the moment. Tomorrow I won't be. That's cool. I'm not saying that when it does end, I'll be like, 'Yay! It's ending'. But I'll move on and do something else because that's what has to be done. It's about survival. If you're sad about it, then you're in the wrong job."

"We're all fans of cinema, you know. Forget about being an actor, I love watching films. I really do. That's what I love doing, as a hobby. I find the whole process fascinating, as do my parents, they go to the cinema a lot."

"I paint boots. One day my brother takes one and I painted one of his boots with flowers."

"I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size, I buy them anyway."

"I don't do a thing to keep fit, I just cannot make myself work out. My abs are just luck - my mum has good ones so it's a family trait."

"Yes, I have breasts. So does 50% of the population. Do we really have to waste time talking about mine? I don't think so."

"I think I always disappoint people, they expect someone very pretty, very well done."

"If a boob job is really the answer to all your problems, I take my hat off to you. And who knows? In five years time when I'm completely past it, I'll be botox and facelifts and nose jobs and hair weaves and watermelons. But I don't fancy solid tits."

"I don't read any magazines or newspapers any more, because I find it really scary and I get really scared when I'm followed by photographers. I have, on many occasions, broken down in tears because I find it terrifying."

"I don't like parties very much. I'm not a very sociable being."

"I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it."

"I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way around, I'm absolutely fine."

"I take my hat off to actresses there, particularly the young ones, because the emphasis is on trying to find perfection. But I think it's the imperfections in people that make them perfect. I don't find perfect faces very interesting."

"Acting requires me to be very observant, which means being able to sit in cafés for hours and watch people."

[About Star Wars] "The problem for me was that by being in the film the magic was broken. I loved the first Star Wars film and my mum was really into it too, that's why I took the part. But the Force wasn't there when we were filming it, and they didn't have real light sabres, which annoyed me."

"Every part I've ever got, I always thought it was completely ridiculous that I was up for it. With Pirates, I only packed for a week because I was sure that I was going to get sacked. I thought they'd made the hugest mistake."

[About Pirates of the Caribbean] "I had a Scarlet O'Hara thing, she gets her waist down to 18 and a half inches - so I thought I would try that. For 5 minutes it's fantastic - you have this tiny waist and fantastic cleavage, but oxygen deprivation is a big problem!"

[About King Arthur] "When I worked with Jerry before on Pirates of the Caribbean I was complaining the entire time that I didn't have a sword. Now he's not only given my swords, he's given me knives, axes and all the rest of it as well!"

"As a moviegoer and a woman, I want to see that, so it's great to get to play parts like that. But Guinevere is a terrifying creature. 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."

[About Love Actually] "We had kind of done all our wedding and we felt like the stars of the show, then sudden you've got all these other people with storylines and you think: excuse me, I know you're Alan Rickman but get out of my film, please, thank you."

"When in doubt, faint."

"Yes, that's a Beverly Hills manicure that. No CGI nail work for Miss Keira Knightley, ha, I've got my very own stunt nails!"

"Nobody wanted my Star Wars action figure. But I'd love to play with her."

"Dyslexics of the world unite!"

"I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole?"

"I feel less blonde now and, er, smarter!"

"I've always been quite tomboyish."

"Three years after that I was diagnosed as dyslexic, and we struck a deal: I was allowed to start acting on condition that I would read constantly and get good grades at school."

"I've got a lot of experience with anorexia. It was in my family. My grandmother, and my great-grandmother suffered from it and I had a lot of friends at school who suffer from it so I don't think it's anything to be taken lightly."

"A newspaper here voted me one of the scruffiest people in Britain. I'm quite proud of that. It's completely true."

"The most fantastic date I've ever had was going bowling, because I don't bowl and I'm awful."

"I'm dyslexic, and at six years old they realized I couldn't read a word and had been fooling them. My mum said to me: 'If you come to me with a book in your hand and a smile on your face every day through the summer holiday, I'll get you an agent.' "

"If I have a dark side, I haven't discovered it yet. How very boring of me."

"Nudity frightens me, but I will do it when I think it's necessary- or when it makes me giggle."