I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

- Romola Garai

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

- Romola Garai

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.

- Romola Garai

There's nothing very interesting about my life.

- Romola Garai

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

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

- Romola Garai

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.

- Romola Garai

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

- Romola Garai

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

- Romola Garai

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

- Romola Garai

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

- Romola Garai

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

- Romola Garai

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.

- Romola Garai

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

- Romola Garai

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

- Romola Garai