Quotes from Rosamund Pike

I think it's one of the great enrichments of life, romance.

I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

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

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 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 never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

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

I am drawn to courageous women.

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

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

I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.

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.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

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 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.

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.