Romola Garai Quotes

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Romola Garai

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 6, 1982

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

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It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

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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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Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

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There's nothing very interesting about my life.

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I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be.

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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

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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 want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

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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.

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I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

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Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

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There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.'

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I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

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I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

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I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

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I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress.

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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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