Zitat des Tages von Romola Garai:
I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.
It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.
Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.
As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.
In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.
I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.
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.
We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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 that.
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.'
When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.
I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.
I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.
There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.
I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.
I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.
Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
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 it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.
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 was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.
