Romola Garai quotes

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism. (Romola Garai)
I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about. View quote
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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. View quote
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The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema. View quote
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Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche. View quote
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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. View quote
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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight. View quote
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Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. View quote
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If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom. (Romola Garai)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman. View quote
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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. View quote
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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited. View quote
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I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! View quote
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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet. View quote
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I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction. View quote
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I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated. (Romola Garai)
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum. View quote
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I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other. View quote
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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively. View quote
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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. View quote
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