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70 quotes by Romola Garai

Romola Sadie Garai (/ˈrɒmələ ˈseɪdi ˈɡæri/; born 6 August 1982) is an English actress. 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 the Golden Globe Award.
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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... →

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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... →

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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... →

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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?,'... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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