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" Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. "
Acting
Pain
Joy
" Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile. "
Short
Short Hair
Hair
" And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to. "
Smile
Together
Look
" Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion. "
Feel
Anger
Know
" Any actress - goodness, we're lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones. "
Goodness
Good
Working
" As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it? "
Yourself
Ambition
Better
" Especially in Britain, people want to limit you. "
People
Limit
Britain
" Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks. "
Stop
Reach
Looks
" I am drawn to courageous women. "
Am
Drawn
I Am
" I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know? "
You
Feel
Someone
" I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior. "
Who
Way
Woman
" I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay. "
Finish
Buildings
Because
" I didn't know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I'd be a stage actress. I always knew money would be tough, but that never frightened me. "
Always
Tough
Me
" I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too. "
Like
I Am
Sense
" I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made. "
Nicole
Made
Tender
" I do know that the key to anything good is feeling relaxed and free. That's the main thing that you can offer yourself as an actor. "
Free
Know
You
" I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do. "
York
Really
New York
" I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call me up, say: 'Are you free tonight and d'you wanna go to the roller-disco? Or play pool?' "
People
Book
Free
" If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty. "
Someone
You
Makes
" If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd think you were completely mad. "
You
Day
Good
" I grew up without any security - I obviously had lots of security because I have two parents who had a good marriage and stayed together, and we had a creative household full of ideas, but there was never any financial security. So I knew I could have a good life without that. "
Life
Parents
Marriage
" I have worked with three female first assistant directors - on 'Hostiles,' 'Gone Girl,' and a short film, 'The Human Voice,' and they have all been exceptional. "
Film
Girl
Human
" I just hope and pray that I never get threatened by younger actresses coming up behind me. I hope I won't, but you never know what's going to hit you. "
Behind
You
Never
" I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically. "
Feel
I Feel
Things
" I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach. "
Free
Holiday
Walking
" I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side. "
Way
Kind
Know
" I'm not frightened of what people will think an more. Because, you know, when you're a teenager or in your early 20s, you're always frightened of what people will think. "
You
Always
Early
" I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards. "
Doing
Cards
Business
" In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them. "
Doom
Game
You
" I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling. "
Parents
Me
Work
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