113 Quotes by Romola Garai

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

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

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

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

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

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