Romola Garai Quotes:
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.
Romola Garai
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
Romola Garai
I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.
Romola Garai
Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
Romola Garai
Increasingly, it’s actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there’s no distinction between actresses and models.
Romola Garai
There’s no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, ‘Do you have it in a 10?’ Because all the press samples are an 8 – I would say a ‘small 8.’
Romola Garai
I’m a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.
Romola Garai
I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
Romola Garai
I can’t spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
Romola Garai
I’ve always scribbled, and I still do it. I’ve written numerous scripts for films for which I think I’d be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I’m not a writer.
Romola Garai
I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I’m really badly equipped to be an actress.
Romola Garai
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.
Romola Garai
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.
Romola Garai
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.
Romola Garai
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.
Romola Garai
If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you’ve won the jackpot.
Romola Garai
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.
Romola Garai
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.
Romola Garai
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.
Romola Garai