Rosamund Pike

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

I didn't know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I'd be a stage actress. I always knew money would be tough, but that never frightened me.

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

I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right.

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.

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 long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties.

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

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.'

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