Best Romola Garai Quotes
- Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. Actually Wearing
- The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively. Any
- We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight. Adult
- You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. Aesthetic
- 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… Achieve
- The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like… Actress
- The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate… Apathetic
- When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were… Been
- 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… Aesthetic
- Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism. Conservatism
- 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… Brought
- If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who… Chatty
- 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… Actor
- The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character. Actress
- My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre. Ambition
- 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… Alter
- I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big… Big