“If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how ...” — Rosamund Pike Quote

“If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd think you were completely mad.”

“Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks.”

“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 was glad I liked chemistry.”

“I was pre-med for a semester, and then I got a C- in organic chemistry and was washed out of that program. Then I imagined I'd be a lawyer. I was gonna go to law school.”

“To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.”