Quotes by Rosamund Pike

About Rosamund Pike:

Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike is an English actress. Her first screen credit was in 1998 for the television film A Rather English Marriage and she came to attention when she was cast at age 21 as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002). She won the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for The Libertine; and also received BIFA nominations for her performances as Helen in An Education (2009), and Lisa in Made in Dagenham (2010).
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It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.

Rosamund Pike

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

Rosamund Pike

I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I'd been, say, number three, I would have.

Rosamund Pike

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.

Rosamund Pike

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

Rosamund Pike

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.

Rosamund Pike

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

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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.

Rosamund Pike

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?

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Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

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

Rosamund Pike

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

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

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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.

Rosamund Pike

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.

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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 g...

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.

Rosamund Pike

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.

Rosamund Pike

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.'

Rosamund Pike

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...

Rosamund Pike

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameRosamund Pike
  • DescriptionEnglish actress
  • BornJanuary 27, 1979
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor