Romola Garai famous quotes

04-17-2025

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.
-- Romola Garai

#Facts #Actresses #Body
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?"
-- Romola Garai

#Character #Thinking #Men
I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.
-- Romola Garai

#Daughter #Watches #My Sister
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.
-- Romola Garai

#Thinking #Film #Found
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.
-- Romola Garai

#Drama #Thinking #Play
I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
-- Romola Garai

#Sex #Dark #Cinema
Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
-- Romola Garai

#Character #Goal #Alliances
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.
-- Romola Garai

#Art #Sacrifice #Thinking
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

#Vintage #Lovely #Underwear
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
-- Romola Garai

#Actors #Scene
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

#Book #Artist #Play
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.
-- Romola Garai

#Art #Team #Thinking
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

#Lying #Boredom #Mad
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

#Keys #Hands #Actresses
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
-- Romola Garai

#Useless Things #Busy #Useful Things
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!
-- Romola Garai

#Past #People #Choices
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

#Hands #Want #Paradox
As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.
-- Romola Garai

#Kids #Past #Lifetime
I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television and film it's really unhelpful. Even if people make perceptive and interesting comments about your performance, it is so subjective and you will come in and change what you do, you can't help it.
-- Romola Garai

#Thinking #Long #People
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.
-- Romola Garai

#Niche #Film #Concern
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

#Believe #Desire #Actors
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.
-- Romola Garai

#Careers #Acting #Lifetime
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.
-- Romola Garai

#Baby #Fighting #Order
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

#Children #Get Well #Differences

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