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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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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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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
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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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Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
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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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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 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 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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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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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 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 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 wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for 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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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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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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