Rosamund Pike

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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?'”

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

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

“I think I needed rather than wanted to be an actor. There is not another way to put it.”

“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.”

“I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it's just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director's vision.”

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