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" 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. "

Rosamund Pike

Walk

You

Work

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" 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. "

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Industry

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" 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? "

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

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

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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?' "

" 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. "

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Interesting

Baby

" 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? "

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

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

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