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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.

Romola Garai

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
Actor
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Film Actor
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Stage Actor
Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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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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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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 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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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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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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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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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