Chekhov Quote by Annette Bening

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines,…

— Eve Best

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

— Maxine Peake

One is always attracted to pieces of theatre with great roles for women.

— Phyllida Lloyd

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a…

— Kathleen Turner

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women…

— Reese Witherspoon

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.

— Keegan-Michael Key

I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre.

— Roger Allam

It's not that I only want to make films about women, but from my experience, I have been very interested in the women who…

— Sebastian Lelio

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and…

— Helen Mirren

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

— Miranda Otto