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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
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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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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 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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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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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I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.
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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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