Top 33 Rosamund Pike Quotes

Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks.

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

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 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?’

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.

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

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 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.

People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films because, ultimately, that’s what the women have always done.

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.

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

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.

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.

As a woman, you feel that you shouldn’t want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn’t it?

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I think I’ll be flavor of the month when I’m in my fifties.

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 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.

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.

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

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