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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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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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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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 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 would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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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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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 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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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
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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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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'm fundamentally a busy person I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
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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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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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'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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