Rosamund Pike Quotes

Competition gives birth to a lot of success, and if no one ever challenged you, you wouldn't go anywhere. It makes sense to compete with others for a promotion at work. But so many women take it a step further and won't even support other women. They end up competing over things that don't make sense - like how we look.

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

The people I look up to most are actresses such as Kate Winslet and Amy Schumer, who have never been size zero and are judged on their bodies of work, not their bodies.

There's a lot of pressure on women to look in a certain way. It's not easy to live in a world that objectifies women.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

The majority of women in America look like me.

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

I have cellulite, just like almost every other woman on the planet.

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

I'm really proud of being part of that whole geek/chic, girl nerds, glasses are sexy and all of that because I think it's true. In America, I don't know about in other places, but there is this mythology about the way a woman is supposed to be and look and act and that's what makes them sexy. And I love being the alternative to that.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.