I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.
Rosamund Pike
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.
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.'
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.
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 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.
Any actress - goodness, we're lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones.
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've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.
Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.
I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay.
You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties.
I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.
Some women can feel under-qualified due to a general lack of confidence whereas, in fact, they are uniquely qualified.
I am drawn to courageous women.
Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks.
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.
I think I needed rather than wanted to be an actor. There is not another way to put it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.
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.
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.
I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.
You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.
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.
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.
It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.
In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.
I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.
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.
I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.
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.
Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion.
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'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.
It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.
What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you.
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.
Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.
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.
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.
I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.
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?'
Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile.
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.
