Quotes by Romola Garai

About Romola Garai:

Romola Sadie Garai is an English actress. She is known for appearing in the films Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and in BBC series such as Emma, The Hour, and The Crimson Petal and the White. She has been nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award.
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If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Romola Garai

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

Romola Garai

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

Romola Garai

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

Romola Garai

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

Romola Garai

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.

Romola Garai

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

Romola Garai

There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.

Romola Garai

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...

Romola Garai

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

Romola Garai

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

Romola Garai

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

Romola Garai

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

Romola Garai

Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

Romola Garai

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

Romola Garai

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

Romola Garai

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Romola Garai

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Romola Garai

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

Romola Garai

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

Romola Garai

Author Bio

  • NameRomola Garai
  • DescriptionEnglish actress
  • BornAugust 6, 1982
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor