Action Quote by Jan de Bont

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

— Bel Powley

I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.

— Kevin Feige

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

— Vicky McClure

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

— Brie Larson

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female…

— Joss Whedon

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

— Colleen Atwood

I think the superhero platform gives the female character, you know, a relate-ability for the male audience as well. So, I think that's why…

— Margot Robbie

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

— Katee Sackhoff

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

— Kalki Koechlin

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

— Famke Janssen

There was a very difficult time when a female hero was a man in a woman's body. 'Hunger Games' really changed that: a woman…

— Patty Jenkins