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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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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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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 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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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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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'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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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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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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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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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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 think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.
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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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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'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'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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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