“I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that!”

On her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice, in Allure magazine (October 2007)

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