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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.
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 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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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'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 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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Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
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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 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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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 get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.
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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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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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