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Romola Garai

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

— Romola Garai

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

— Romola Garai life

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.

— Romola Garai time

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

— Romola Garai work

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

— Romola Garai war

I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be.

— Romola Garai women

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.

— Romola Garai women

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.

— Romola Garai women

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 life

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.

— Romola Garai love

I've done a few costume dramas, and people say, 'What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,' and most of the time it doesn't make any difference. You're wearing something a bit weird, and it's sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn't really have a huge impact on the part that you're playing.

— Romola Garai time

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.

— Romola Garai change

There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.

— Romola Garai live

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

— Romola Garai you

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

— Romola Garai women

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

— Romola Garai positive

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.

— Romola Garai love

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

— Romola Garai women

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 truth

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 self

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

— Romola Garai real

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

— Romola Garai time

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.

— Romola Garai women

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

— Romola Garai love

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

— Romola Garai women

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