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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.

Romola Garai

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Romola Sadie Garai
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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 can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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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 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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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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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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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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 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 would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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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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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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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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 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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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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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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