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" 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. "

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" I think I was lucky in that I wasn't one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager. "

Rosamund Pike

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Never

Looks

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

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

" I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too. "

Rosamund Pike

I Am

Sense

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rosamund Pike

Summer

Energy

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" You just never know who's going to have chemistry. You can put two of the sexiest people in the world together, and they could be completely flat. "

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

Rosamund Pike

You

Over

" 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'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. "

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

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

Rosamund Pike

Entertainment

Industry

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

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

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

" I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "