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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.

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'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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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 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 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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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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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 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 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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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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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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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
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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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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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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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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 wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
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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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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