Away Quote by Angelina Jolie

Despite being a woman, somehow I have always found myself idolising male characters.

— Koel Mallick

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She's…

— Angelina Jolie

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

— Candice Bergen

I loved playing a character that women fancied.

— Ray Fearon

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

— Barbra Streisand

I know I was known as a ladies man and all that, but even the thought of holding my heroine's hand made me break…

— Jackie Shroff

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I feel happy to play strong women because, as an audience member, I feel such characters inspire women when they are down.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

I never planned to do female roles. It just happened. I was typecast.

— Divine

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

— Elizabeth Hand

There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman…

— Rosamund Pike

I loved being a man-woman. It's much more interesting than being one or the other.

— Noel Fielding