Romola Garai Quotes
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I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.
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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.
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I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.
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Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
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I think I was quite lucky in that I went to an all-girls school. I was never put in an environment where I had to be the other - the woman as opposed to the man - all the way through my education. I was never made to feel that way at home.
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I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.
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As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.
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I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
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I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.
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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"
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I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
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I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.
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Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
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Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
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Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!
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The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.
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I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
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I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
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If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
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I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"
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I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.
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I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.
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I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.
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I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.
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