Rosamund Pike Quotes

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.

I just live my life and do what I want to do and don't think about what is written about me.

Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

While I do not want to live my life like Lemmy chose to live his, I can't help but admire the strength and determination it took for Lem to do it all on his own terms and remain true to himself.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

My family all thought I was a little nuts.