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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Some women can feel under-qualified due to a general lack of confidence whereas, in fact, they are uniquely qualified. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions - I know I do - is through recognizing experiences on screen or in novels or in paintings. "

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

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

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

" Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" Sometimes it irks when people come up in the street and say, 'Oh I'm a huge James Bond fan' - when you obviously want them to be a fan of your work in particular. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I am drawn to courageous women. "

" 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. "

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