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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage. "

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

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

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

" The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards. "

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

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

" When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.' "

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

" There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing. "

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

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