Explore Quotes by Rosamund Pike

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.

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

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

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 saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

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

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

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.

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.

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.