Rosamund Pike quotes

Born
27 January 1979, Hammersmith, London, England.

Occupation
Actress.

What I find sexy is when someone’s having fun and able to look right back at you.
– Rosamund Pike

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

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That’s definitely a dream of mine.
– 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

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.
– Rosamund Pike

I’d really love to live in New York for awhile. That’s what I’m hoping to do.
– Rosamund Pike

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.
– Rosamund Pike

Any actress – goodness, we’re lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones.
– Rosamund Pike

I never thought I’d make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.
– Rosamund Pike

You just never know who’s going to have chemistry. You can put two of the sexiest people in the world together, and they could be completely flat.
– Rosamund Pike

I’ve got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I’m really fascinated by that.
– Rosamund Pike

You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you’re over all your anxieties.
– Rosamund Pike

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

There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it’s just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director’s vision.
– Rosamund Pike

Sometimes it irks when people come up in the street and say, ‘Oh I’m a huge James Bond fan’ – when you obviously want them to be a fan of your work in particular.
– Rosamund Pike

I’d like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.
– Rosamund Pike

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

I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.
– Rosamund Pike

I think I’ll be flavor of the month when I’m in my fifties.
– Rosamund Pike

I think you tend to try, during the time you’ve got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total world. I mean, the sets were claustrophobic, and as soon as you were on there, you were right back into it.
– Rosamund Pike

I just hope and pray that I never get threatened by younger actresses coming up behind me. I hope I won’t, but you never know what’s going to hit you.
– Rosamund Pike

I think it’s one of the great enrichments of life, romance.
– Rosamund Pike

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

When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can’t believe that people aren’t criticising you.
– Rosamund Pike

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

I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.
– Rosamund Pike

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

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.
– Rosamund Pike

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

It is interesting to break all the rules. I’m not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.
– Rosamund Pike

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it’s a very honest emotion.
– Rosamund Pike

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

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.
– Rosamund Pike