113 Quotes by Romola Garai

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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