Romola Garai Quotes

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• The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.

  Romola Garai

  Facts, Actresses, Body

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• I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"

  Romola Garai

  Character, Thinking, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

  Romola Garai

  Daughter, Watches, My Sister

  "Romola Garai interview: On a roll". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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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.

  Romola Garai

  War, Thinking, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

  Romola Garai

  Children, Adults, Expected

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Drama, Thinking, Play

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

  Romola Garai

  Sex, Dark, Cinema

  "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Mark Kermode, Romola Garai, Anna Smith and Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Thinking, Film, Found

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Character, Goal, Alliances

  "Romola Garai Talks The Crimson Petal And The White, The Hour, And Last Days On Mars". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 10, 2012.

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Vintage, Lovely, Underwear

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• I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

  Romola Garai

  Actors, Scene

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Book, Artist, Play

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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

  Lying, Boredom, Mad

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

  Romola Garai

  Useless Things, Busy, Useful Things

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Hands, Want, Paradox

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Gender

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• As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

  Romola Garai

  Kids, Past, Lifetime

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• I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

  Romola Garai

  Want, Messages, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

  Romola Garai

  Niche, Film, Concern

  "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Romola Garai, Nicci Gerrard, Anna Smith, Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Believe, Desire, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Careers, Acting, Lifetime

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Baby, Fighting, Order

  "I celebrate the defiance in Pussy Riot's eyes" by Romola Garai, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2013.

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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.

  Romola Garai

  Children, Get Well, Differences

  "Romola Garai brings modern sense to roles" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. November 26, 2012.

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