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" Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile. "

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" I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach. "

" Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks. "

" 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. "

" You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties. "

" It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. "

" I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am. "

" I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically. "

" 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? "

" It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right. "

" 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?' "

" What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you. "

" If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty. "

" 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. "

" People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films because, ultimately, that's what the women have always done. "

" Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature. "

" I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do. "

" I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too. "

" 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. "

" It's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth. "

" You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions - I know I do - is through recognizing experiences on screen or in novels or in paintings. "

" 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. "

" What's so great about 'Gone Girl' is the conversations it provokes. "

" I wanted to be an actress since I was really, really small. I knew I didn't want to sing, and I didn't want to do music, and words were the ways I wanted to express myself. "

" I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that. "

" In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them. "

" The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that. "

" Any actress - goodness, we're lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones. "

" I think you tend to try, during the time you've got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total world. I mean, the sets were claustrophobic, and as soon as you were on there, you were right back into it. "