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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.

Romola Garai

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Hong Kong SAR
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Romola Sadie Garai
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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 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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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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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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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 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'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'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 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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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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