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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

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 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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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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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 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 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 argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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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 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 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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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