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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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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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 would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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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 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 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 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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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 can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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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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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 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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I'm fundamentally a busy person I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
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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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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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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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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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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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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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