Romola Garai Quotes

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.

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?"

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

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.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

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.

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

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

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.

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.

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.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

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 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 have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

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.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

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 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.

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.

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.