Romola Garai Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.”

“The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.”

“There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.”

“There's nothing very interesting about my life.”

“We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.”

“Someone like David Tennant is able to embrace people's love for 'Doctor Who' in a totally positive way. I have huge admiration for people who are able to do that.”

“The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.”

“The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.”

“There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.”

“I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.”