Romola Garai
Romola Garai
Romola Sadie Garaiis an English actress, writer, director. She is known for appearing in the films Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and in BBC series such as Emma, The Hour and The Crimson Petal and the White. She has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award and is BAFTA nominated...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 August 1982
CityHong Kong, China
careers acting lifetime
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.
today aesthetic conform
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
hands keys lunatic-asylums
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
messages want feels
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.
suffering workplace kind
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.
vintage lovely underwear
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
character judging way
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
thinking film found
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.
children adults expected
We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
jobs acting strange
Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
useless-things busy useful-things
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
character men thinking
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?"
kids past lifetime
As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.
hands want paradox
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.