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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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Hong Kong SAR
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Romola Sadie Garai
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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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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'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 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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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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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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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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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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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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 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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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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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 can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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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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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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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
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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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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