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" 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 certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I am drawn to courageous women. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth. "

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

" I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh. "

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" Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. "

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

" I'm not frightened of what people will think an more. Because, you know, when you're a teenager or in your early 20s, you're always frightened of what people will think. "