Quotes by Romola Garai - Page 2

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 / Actress
Film
Found
Thinking
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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.
Romola Garai / Actress
Courage
Flaws
Heroines
Life Always I Am
Life Courage Always
Naturally
Drawn
Failures
Successes
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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 / Actress
People
Thinking
Writing
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I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.
Romola Garai / Actress
Media
News
Paper
Point Of View
Social Media
Tv
View
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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.
Romola Garai / Actress
Mass
Military Action
Motivated
Participation
Invaded
Protests
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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.
Romola Garai / Actress
Love Time Work
Avoid
Badly
Equipped
Love Work Time
Wherever
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I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.
Romola Garai / Actress
Aesthetic
Weeping
Fifties
Repugnant
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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.'
Romola Garai / Actress
Lending
Ring
Samples
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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.
Romola Garai / Actress
Sad
Britain
Involved
Responsibility
Taken
Countries
Displaced
Sad Fact
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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 / Actress
Acting
Careers
Employed
Lifetime
Hard Thing
Spans
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I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.
Romola Garai / Actress
Jobs
Important
Life Is
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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.
Romola Garai / Actress
Glowing
Reflection
I Am Me Way
Article
Disliked
Interview
Unpleasant
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There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.
Romola Garai / Actress
Conflict
News
Risk
Versus
Report
Behind
Desk
Journalists
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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.
Romola Garai / Actress
Bamboo
Children
Garden
Horse
Jumping
Storm
Alter
Egos
Poles
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I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.
Romola Garai / Actress
Real
Recovery
Sadness
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I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.
Romola Garai / Actress
Childbirth
Concerned
Desperation
Recovery
Sadness
Effect
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If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.
Romola Garai / Actress
Art
Sacrifice
Thinking
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When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.
Romola Garai / Actress
Actors
Stories
Strong
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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.
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Drama
Play
Thinking
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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.
Romola Garai / Actress
Brilliant
Oxford
History Always Where
Essay
Studies
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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 / Actress
Actresses
Advent
Big Corporations
Body
Corporations
Facts
Ownership
Bodies
Enhancing
Images
Protesting
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I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't.
Romola Garai / Actress
Career Path
Fundamentally
So Many People
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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.
Romola Garai / Actress
Fields
Lying
Pushy
Academically
Bath
Near
Quite A Lot
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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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Hardworking
Lazy
Rounds
Ceos
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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?"
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Men
Character
Thinking
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If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"
Romola Garai / Actress
Appreciate
Thinking
Writing
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Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.
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Inspiring
Conception
Work Me People
Invested
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I think I was quite lucky in that I went to an all-girls school. I was never put in an environment where I had to be the other - the woman as opposed to the man - all the way through my education. I was never made to feel that way at home.
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Girl
Home
Men
School
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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.
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Men
War
Thinking
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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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Intelligent
Scripts
Complex
Heroine
Numerous
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If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
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Spoilt
Older Men
Positions
Slightly
Specific
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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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Backlash
Disappointment
Failing
Feminism
Perpetual
Trapped
Cycle
Feminists
Led
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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 / Actress
Women
Broadcasting
Children
Differences
Enormous
Get Well
Huge
Late
Print
Talk
Course
Difference
Working
Journalists
Well
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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 / Actress
Apathetic
Baby
Boomers
Emulate
Fighting
Order
Baby Boomers
Compromised
People New Generation
Distinguishing
Ideologies
Young People
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I've done a few costume dramas, and people say, 'What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,' and most of the time it doesn't make any difference. You're wearing something a bit weird, and it's sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn't really have a huge impact on the part that you're playing.
Romola Garai / Actress
Uncomfortable
Time Character Done
Costume
Dramas
Wearing
Huge Impact
People Say
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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.
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Long
People
Thinking
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Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!
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Choices
Past
People
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I love the theatre and I love working in the theatre but I'm a big cinefile and I love the movies. I also do scribble but to limited success! I think I find being in a room on my own quite hard, which I think a lot of actors do because what we do is so inter-active. It's a very supportive profession... despite its reputation for being highly competitive it's actually one of the most collaborative professions you can do in the arts because you're always working in a team.
Romola Garai / Actress
Art
Team
Thinking
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