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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
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Stage Actor
Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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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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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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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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 just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
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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 can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television and film it's really unhelpful. Even if people make perceptive and interesting comments about your performance, it is so subjective and you will come in and change what you do, you can't help it.
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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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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 wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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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If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.
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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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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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When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
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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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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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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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