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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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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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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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 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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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'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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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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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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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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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