113 Quotes by Romola Garai

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

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

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?"

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

I love ‘30 Rock.’ Absolutely love it. It’s a game-changing show.

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

When you’re on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it’s a story you tell with the audience – you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.

I’ve worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene – that makes me go pretty atomic.

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