Death Quote by Harriet Walter

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

— Maxine Peake

I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general…

— Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra was exhausting to play, but also completely exhilarating. She creates her own energy.

— Harriet Walter

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

— Virginia Woolf

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

— Kathleen Turner

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

— 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

“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly…

— Bettany Hughes

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

— Kim Cattrall

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

— Sandra Bullock

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