Romola GaraiFilms about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche. ✨ The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified? by Romola Garai,… ▶373Philosophy
Romola GaraiI have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.331PoliticsTimeTruth
Romola GaraiThe 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 own… ▶354DeathTruth
Romola GaraiI'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.354LoveReading
Romola GaraiI love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show. ✨ Romola Garai's heroes of TV news by Romola Garai, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2011.343Love
Romola GaraiThe 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 with… ▶355HopeHumanity
Romola GaraiI've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic. ✨ Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 20… ▶367Thought
Romola GaraiI think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.334Thought
Romola GaraiWhen 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 diff… ▶324Reading
Romola GaraiActing is a strange job because your control is very limited. ✨ Romola Garai interview: On a roll. Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.313Death
Romola GaraiI wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.359Reading
Romola GaraiI can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.315Life
Romola GaraiAs a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.3610LifeLoveTime
Romola GaraiNowadays, 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.305Truth
Romola GaraiI just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.316Life
Romola GaraiI 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.296Humor
Romola GaraiI love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction. ✨ Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 10, 2012.274LoveReading
Romola GaraiThe worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.242Philosophy
Romola GaraiWe live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.297Humanity
Romola GaraiI 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… ▶278Life
Romola GaraiIf 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.256Time
Romola GaraiI get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.257Thought
Romola GaraiI 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, particular… ▶171LifeTime
Romola GaraiYou don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.2510Thought
Romola GaraiIf you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.151Truth
Romola GaraiA passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.142LoveReadingSadness
Romola GaraiI cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference. ✨ Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.c… ▶176Hope
Romola GaraiOur conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.199Love
Romola GaraiI can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about. ✨ Romola Garai interview: On a roll. Interview with Alice Fisher, … ▶144Truth
Romola GaraiI would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema. ✨ The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified? by Mark Kermod… ▶135Time
