English - Actress | August 6, 1982 -
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
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There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
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I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
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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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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.
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I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.
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