Romola Garai Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.”

“I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.”