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Rosamund Pike

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Film actress

Rosamund Pike is a British actress born on January 27, 1979. She gained widespread acclaim for her performance in the film 'The Shawshank Redemption' and has played leading or significant roles in various film and television projects.

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“I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better.”

People Play Junkie

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Trying Firsts Ideas Actors Laughing Pretentious Have A Laugh

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“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.”

Humans Film Actors Walks Teach Streets Human Nature Film Set Best Education

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“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.”

People Believe Mean Character Jobs Actors Differences Creating

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“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.”

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“I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.”

People Thinking Attention Figures Fame Hardest Merit Girlfriend Spotlight Hardest Times

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“We, Brits, need to be sort of loosened up. And there's some transfer overseas, I think the more American fare that comes to the U.K., the more cross-fertilization there is that's perhaps changing.”

Thinking Needs Crosses Transfers Brits Fertilization

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“There are couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage. Of course it is true, that's exactly what a child does but it's not something to be feared, it's to be embraced.”

Feels Children Doe Courses Powerful Stage Couple Links Fearful

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“I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. 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.”

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“Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.”

People Want Limits Britain

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“Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion.”

Knows Feels Emotion Honest Angry Accepted

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“As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?”

Want Feels Ambition Ugly Better Yourself

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“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.”

Humans Pain Joy Acting Laughing Misery Communicate

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“Actresses generally arent allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isnt considered as versatile.”

Hair Actresses Haircuts Versatile Short Hair

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“I think it's OK to play to your strengths, and if I have a quality of Englishness that people like, I won't hide that. I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better. A view that's been held for a long time is that the best way to prove oneself as an actor is to play the grittiest roles out there. I don't agree with that.”

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“If I don't win the match I at least want to improve my game.”

Ifs Want Games Winning

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“Obviously when you're pregnant everything changes, you have another body to take care of.”

Body Care Take Care Pregnant Things Change

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“I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot.”

Thinking Important Actors Goal Term Clear Wonderful Exercise Lessons Yoga Tennis Swim Clear Goals

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“I think every physical program has to come from good nutrition.”

Thinking Program Nutrition Good Nutrition

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“I believe in eating all the right kinds of foods, and I don't believe in a totally nonfat diet.”

Believe Kind I Believe Eating Don't Believe I Believe In Diets

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“I just want my child to have security and being looked after by me, by my other half, by my mother and by a nanny. We all share that responsibility equally and I think he is a very well-adjusted little boy.”

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“If I see any sort of injustice, I can fight like a dog. I'm not frightened to be outspoken and I can get very angry. I think expressing anger is not something that's considered very feminine... or British! If I saw someone slandered in the press... libel is something I really loathe. So, I probably would speak out about that, whether it was about myself or someone else.”

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“Usually, when you first start out, you're so grateful to get anything that you just sort of take it and say: "Thank you very much." You're too afraid to even mention the money because it's embarrassing.”

Grateful Embarrassing Saying Thank You So Grateful

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“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.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Emotion Novel Painting Art Is

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“I realized that many men are happy to play a supporting role to another man, but they are much less happy to play a supporting role to a woman. 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. We've always lent our name value to male-centric stories, and now we're going to have to ask the men to swallow their pride, because it seems that it's about pride.”

People Men Done Film Values Quality He Man Pride Female I Realized

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“You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.”

Ifs Want Lows Profile

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

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“Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.”

Learning Fancy Programming Bugs

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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 great.”

Years Done Dream Wanted Together Film New York Youth Mines Ten Theatre Teenage Youth Theatre

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“I know I’ve got loads that has never been tapped.”

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“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.”

People Trying Looks Kind Two Together Faces Fate Pride Prejudice Smile Manage Two Things Never Quit Doom Double Take

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“It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.”

Mean Whole Action Film Games Support Violence Video Explosions Unreal

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

Looks Walking Beach Holiday Walking On The Beach

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“Ive 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.”

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

Games Fate Computer Originals Doom Computer Games

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

Shows Bigs Fire Fascinated Pyrotechnics

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Born: January 27, 1979
Known for: Film actress
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