A biography for Rosamund Pikehasn’t been written yet.
“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'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.”
“Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.”
“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.”
“Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks.”
“I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.”
“I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know?”
“I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.”
“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.”
“When I was about 21, everyone thought I was about 30.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you.”
“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 can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.”
“I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.”
“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.”
“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.”