Quotes by Romola Garai

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 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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Truth

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

— Romola Garai

Life

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

Success

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Success

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

Wisdom

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

— Romola Garai

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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 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

Wisdom

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

— Romola Garai

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Romola Garai

Wisdom

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

— Romola Garai

Wisdom

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

Success

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

— Romola Garai

Wisdom

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

— Romola Garai

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Success

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

— Romola Garai

Wisdom