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

" 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. "

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

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

" Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film. "

" One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit. "

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

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

" 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 grew up without any security - I obviously had lots of security because I have two parents who had a good marriage and stayed together, and we had a creative household full of ideas, but there was never any financial security. So I knew I could have a good life without that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished. "

" 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. "

" You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right. "

" 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. "

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

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