Rosamund Pike Quotes (21 Quotes)


    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.

    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.

    You are not sure what to make of her, whether she is responsible for all this or she's innocent.

    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.

    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.


    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.

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

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

    Before the first audition, when they asked me to come in and meet her, I thought 'I can't play Jane to Keira Knightley's Lizzie' but I went and I met her, and thought she was so fabulous, and thought 'if they're prepared to take a risk with her, then I'll go with it.' We became really close.

    The films not just about love, but growing up as well.

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

    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.

    I've never done a film in Los Angeles, so I don't know what that would be like - that experience of working in a big studio. I can't imagine... yet.

    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.

    We thought there should be a bit more edge though. We wanted the sisters to grow a little apart, which I think often happens when emotions come into play.

    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.

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

    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.

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

    Then there was a bit of talk about dresses and designers, before the conversation came around to Johnny Depp, with which both Ms' Pike and Knightley have shared screen time the latter on Pirates Of The Caribbean 1,2 and 3, and the former in the upcoming The Libertine . So did they swap gossip No, we didn't really, ... I had a couple of scenes in bed when he was either pissed or disinterested, and I think that's about the extent of it

    It's a great romantic story with very real people in it and I think it is open to so many interpretations like any great bit of literature.


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