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 successes and big failures.

— Romola Garai

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

— Romola Garai

I realize 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.

— Romola Garai

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.

— Romola Garai