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" 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. "

Rosamund Pike

Life

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was about 21, everyone thought I was about 30. "

" I think I was lucky in that I wasn't one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager. "

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

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" I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine. "

" I am drawn to courageous women. "

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" 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 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. "

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

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

" I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained. "

Rosamund Pike

Entertainment

Industry

" 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. "

Rosamund Pike

Parents

Work

" 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. "

" You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable. "

" There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.' For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I'm going to take on thereafter. "

" I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film. "

" 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. "

Rosamund Pike

You

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "