Romola Garai Quotes

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

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

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

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.