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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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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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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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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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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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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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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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 would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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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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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 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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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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I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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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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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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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.
Romola Garai
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.
Romola Garai
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
Romola Garai
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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