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Romola Garai Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression."

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.




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: "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: "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 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: "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: "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."

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 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 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: "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: "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: "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: "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.



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: "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 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 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 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: "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: "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: "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 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: "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 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: "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."

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 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: "It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them."

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.



Romola Garai Quotes: "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."

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

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 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: "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."

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 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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "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."

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 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.