Author: Romola Garai

Quotes

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

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 love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

- Romola Garai

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

- Romola Garai

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

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

- Romola Garai

I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress.

I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress.

- Romola Garai

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

- Romola Garai

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

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

- Romola Garai

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

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

- Romola Garai

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

- Romola Garai

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