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I'm fundamentally a busy person I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Romola Garai

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Film Director
Stage Actor
Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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 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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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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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 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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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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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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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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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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