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

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" I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you. "

" One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it's one of the great enrichments of life, romance. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl. "

" I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh. "

" I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy. "

" You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to. "

" It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions. "

" 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? "

" I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay. "

" 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. "

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