I believe in eating all the right kinds of foods, and I don't believe in a totally nonfat diet. Rosamund Pike More Quotes by Rosamund Pike More Quotes From Rosamund Pike I know I’ve got loads that has never been tapped. Rosamund Pike load knows 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 pain joy laughing I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach. Rosamund Pike holiday beach looks If I don't win the match I at least want to improve my game. Rosamund Pike games winning want Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion. Rosamund Pike accepted honest emotion In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them. Rosamund Pike computer fate games 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. Rosamund Pike support games mean 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. Rosamund Pike fighting dog thinking 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. Rosamund Pike yoga exercise thinking 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. Rosamund Pike pride men people 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. Rosamund Pike emotion art thinking 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. Rosamund Pike girlfriend people thinking 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. Rosamund Pike couple powerful children 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. Rosamund Pike smile fate pride 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. Rosamund Pike laughing ideas thinking 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. Rosamund Pike views play thinking 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. Rosamund Pike drama school thinking As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it? Rosamund Pike ugly ambition want Especially in Britain, people want to limit you. Rosamund Pike limits want people 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. Rosamund Pike jobs character believe
