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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. "

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" There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it's just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director's vision. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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" 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? "

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

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

Rosamund Pike

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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?' "

" 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. "

" I think I needed rather than wanted to be an actor. There is not another way to put it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Especially in Britain, people want to limit you. "

" 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? "

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

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