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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.
Romola Garai
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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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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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 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 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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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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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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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 wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
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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've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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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.
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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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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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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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'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 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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