Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters. Romola Garai More Quotes by Romola Garai More Quotes From 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. Romola Garai feel women society work Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models. Romola Garai doing big advertising fashion There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.' Romola Garai dress me you way I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist. Romola Garai yes feminist god 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 small women society strong 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. Romola Garai bad think always perfect 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 work home time love I've done a few costume dramas, and people say, 'What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,' and most of the time it doesn't make any difference. You're wearing something a bit weird, and it's sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn't really have a huge impact on the part that you're playing. Romola Garai you time character people There's nothing very interesting about my life. Romola Garai my-life nothing life interesting I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't. Romola Garai you future crazy people 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 look think you people I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant. Romola Garai find aesthetic kitchen want
