Latest Romola Garai Quotes from Interviews

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• I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

  Romola Garai

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

  Romola Garai

  Thinking, Play, Female

  Source: collider.com

• I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

  Romola Garai

  Want, Messages, Feels

  Source: collider.com

• It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

  Romola Garai

  Character, Assessment, Negative

  Source: collider.com

• Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

  Romola Garai

  Motherhood, Conflict, Capacity

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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?"

  Romola Garai

  Writing, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Romola Garai

  Character, Men, Males

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Romola Garai

  War, Thinking, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Romola Garai

  Girl, Home, School

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

  Romola Garai

  Strong, Personality, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Romola Garai

  Strong, Stories, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com