Audience Quote by Felicity Kendal

It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm…

— Carrie Coon

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

— Phyllida Lloyd

I feel I like portraying women-centric roles, since I can express pent-up frustrations and suppressed feelings lying deep inside a female soul.

— Rituparna Sengupta

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

— Sriram Raghavan

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

— Candice Bergen

The way you treat the women characters in your film, it gives away your feelings about that topic - whether you treat them frivolously…

— Kabir Khan

So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

— Caitriona Balfe

I'm not so fascinated by these ingenue roles. I tend to gravitate towards women in plays or shows or films that are more chaotic…

— Hari Nef

I've tried to choose roles where women are not just reacting or waiting for something to happen.

— Ana de Armas

Directors approach me for doing 'strong' women characters which, as an actor, increases a sense of responsibility to give my 100 per cent and…

— Aishwarya Rajesh

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

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the…

— Larenz Tate