Heroines Quotes · Page 3

I want to do films where the heroines get to perform.

— Koena Mitra

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was never interested in roles where I would have to dance and romance heroines.

— Saswata Chatterjee

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

— Barbara Cartland

I think heroines would be pretty boring if they were perfect all the time.

— Leigh Bardugo

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

— Maggie Shayne

I am not like other heroines who throw tantrums or make a fuss about the kissing or bikini act.

— Rituparna Sengupta

There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

— Isabella Rossellini

Ananna of Tanarau is a delightfully irascible heroine, inhabiting a fascinating and fresh new world that I would love to spend more…

— Celine Kiernan

“My body shook from pain, exhaustion, and the beginning of shock. I'd pay for all the powers I'd used, but the portal…

— Lola Dodge

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when…

— Yiyun Li

In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.

— Tamannaah

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just…

— Lee Child

“Suddenly the realisation dawned on me; this was my own doing, I'd been forever bored of my little life; I was no…

— Jennifer West

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the…

— H. L. Mencken

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with…

— Daphne du Maurier

Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either…

— Jennifer Worth

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to…

— Guy Claxton

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy…

— Gemma Arterton

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.…

— Viola Davis

In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture…

— Michael Dirda

As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although…

— Joan Didion

Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero…

— Maggie Shayne

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we…

— Vera Nazarian

I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

— Linda Woolverton

I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.

— Groucho Marx

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.

— P. Vasu

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

— Gustave Flaubert

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

— H. G. Wells

I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.

— Mary Beard

We don't have Latina heroines in theaters; I haven't seen Marvel doing it.

— Isabela Moner

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

— Mason Cooley

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

— Jackie French

I'm not insecure. Give me a good role, and I'll perform even for a multi-starrer with half a dozen other heroines!

— Nithya Menen

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

— Mason Cooley

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby...

— Shahrukh Khan