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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty. "

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

" 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. "

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