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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 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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I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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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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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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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've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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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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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 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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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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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
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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'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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