English - Actress | August 6, 1982 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
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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.
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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.
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If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.
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When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.
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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.
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