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I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
Romola Garai
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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Actress
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Film Director
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Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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 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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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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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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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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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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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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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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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 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 really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.
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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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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 would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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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 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'm fundamentally a busy person I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
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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 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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