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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Romola Garai

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.
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I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.
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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
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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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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 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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When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.
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The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
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I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.
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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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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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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 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'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.
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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 can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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I'm fundamentally a busy person I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
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