Romola Garai Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"

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.

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.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

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.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

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.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I love the theatre and I love working in the theatre but I'm a big cinefile and I love the movies. I also do scribble but to limited success! I think I find being in a room on my own quite hard, which I think a lot of actors do because what we do is so inter-active. It's a very supportive profession... despite its reputation for being highly competitive it's actually one of the most collaborative professions you can do in the arts because you're always working in a team.

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

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 grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.