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" 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?' "

Rosamund Pike

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You just never know who's going to have chemistry. You can put two of the sexiest people in the world together, and they could be completely flat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion. "

" Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell. "

" I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I'd been, say, number three, I would have. "

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" 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. "

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" I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made. "

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