Character Quote by Bel Powley

I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

— Bel Powley

There's nothing new about women playing pivotal parts or title roles in films. Women in strong characters have always been accepted. It has been…

— Parineeti Chopra

Let's be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.

— Phoebe Robinson

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

— Bel Powley

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

— Kalki Koechlin

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films…

— Gal Gadot

“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

— Kelly Reilly

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written…

— Ryan Gosling

For a girl to be an actress, she must be like a man, competitive, hard, un-feminine.

— Bob Crane

If the audience shows that it is interested in films portraying strong women, then the producers will be tempted to make such films.

— Shabana Azmi

To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at…

— Jessica Chastain