Top 70 Quotes by Romola Garai

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

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.

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.

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

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.

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

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

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

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 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.