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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.
Romola Garai
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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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 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've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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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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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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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 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'm fundamentally a busy person I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
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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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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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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 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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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 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'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'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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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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