Female character Quotes · Page 4

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

— Vicky McClure

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful,…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

— Peter Hedges

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see…

— Song Hye-kyo

It's a problem with a lot of female characters, that a lot of them are guy oriented or what they're expressing or…

— Jenna Ortega

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a…

— Elmore Leonard

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write…

— Joan D. Vinge

I started watching 'Daria' when I was in college because I didn't have cable growing up. It's such a smart show with…

— Phoebe Robinson

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

As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing.…

— Helen Mirren

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a…

— David Leitch

It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you.…

— Katie Holmes

I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be…

— Elodie Yung

These superhero movies are starting to give more love to not only black characters but also to more female characters, which is…

— Aldis Hodge

“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my…

— Scott Lynch

Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be…

— Geena Davis

I would say any film can be called feminist that has female characters who have agency in their life, that are in…

— Geena Davis

If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent…

— Dwayne McDuffie

“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go…

— Laurie Frankel

I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best…

— Cynthia Nixon

When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“The show tries to offer its young female characters postfeminist identities that break down gender boundaries and hybridize gendered characteristics to produce…

— Lorna Jowett

Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition…

— Anita Sarkeesian

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

— Lotte Verbeek

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can…

— Chika Anadu

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major…

— Teyonah Parris

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

— Geena Davis

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

— Evangeline Lilly

I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching…

— Samantha Akkineni

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

— Portia de Rossi

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way…

— Emma Donoghue

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

— Audrey Tautou

Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.

— Leila Slimani

I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated…

— Lena Dunham

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

— Ryan Gosling

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

— Geena Davis

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

— Tracy Pollan

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just…

— Angelina Jolie

I've worked with Lars von Trier on many films, and there's always a female character that's like an open wound - everything…

— Stellan Skarsgard