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Romola Garai quotes: Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

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

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

Romola Garai quotes: 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.

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.

Romola Garai quotes: 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.

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.

Romola Garai quotes: There's nothing very interesting about my life.

There's nothing very interesting about my life.

Romola Garai quotes: The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Romola Garai quotes: I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

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

Romola Garai quotes: I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Romola Garai quotes: I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

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

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

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

Romola Garai quotes: You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Romola Garai quotes: I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

Romola Garai quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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.

Romola Garai quotes: Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

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

Romola Garai quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

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

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

Romola Garai quotes: I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

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

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

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

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 quotes: There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Romola Garai quotes: I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

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

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

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

Romola Garai quotes: I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

Romola Garai quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Romola Garai quotes: We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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

Romola Garai quotes: Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

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

Romola Garai quotes: I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

Romola Garai quotes: 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.

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.

Romola Garai quotes: Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

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

Romola Garai quotes: I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

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

Romola Garai quotes: If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

Romola Garai quotes: I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

Romola Garai quotes: My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

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

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

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

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

Romola Garai quotes: 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.

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 quotes: If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.