Romola Garai Quotes

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Romola Garai

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 6, 1982

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

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In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.

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A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

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The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

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There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

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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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My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

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I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

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I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

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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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There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.

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I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

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I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.

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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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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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I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

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

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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.

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Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

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