Female characters Quotes · Page 2

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

— Todd Haynes

“You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.”

— Abhijit Naskar

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

— Nicole Holofcener

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

— Julia Roberts

I have been very lucky that I never got typecast while playing female characters.

— Kiku Sharda

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

— Ruth Bradley

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

— Florence Pugh

“What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.”

— Cristin Harber

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or…

— Madchen Amick

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

— Robert Webb

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

— L. J. Smith

One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'.

— Nick Earls

Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

— Jessica Chastain

I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character…

— Madchen Amick

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to…

— Geena Davis

It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath…

— Sophia McDougall

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it.…

— Eli Roth

I think part of the pressure put on 'strong female characters' comes from the fact that there is so often 'the team…

— Seanan McGuire

“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn…

— Roman Payne

“God must think her a badass because he’d handed her this moment, and he didn’t dole out shit she couldn’t handle. That…

— Cristin Harber

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so…

— Danae Elon

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because…

— Katee Sackhoff

I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed…

— Geena Davis

I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they…

— Todd Haynes

I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the…

— Angelina Jolie

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways…

— Bryan Fuller

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need…

— Joss Whedon

“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I couldn't tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn't understand. Oh, poor little Christina, falling for the bad man…

— Nenia Campbell

Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful…

— Mindy Kaling

“I don't believe in the idea of the strong woman; there is simply woman.”

— Melissa Thayer

I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it.

— Noelle Stevenson

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

— Gina Holden

I like shows where the female characters are as funny as the male characters, not just commenting on how funny the male…

— Graham Linehan

Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change…

— Nicole Holofcener

“On Writing About Nora Hawks I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of…

— Dennis R. Miller

“So, why do you write these strong female characters? Because you’re still asking me that question." [ Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]”

— Joss Whedon