Play Quote by Jane Austen

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or…

— Gwendoline Christie

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

— Rebel Wilson

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love…

— Dan Chaon

“I loathe the grading of tragedy and the jostling for pre-eminence amongst the bereaved, that most disgusting example of the disgusting habit of claiming…

— Catriona McPherson

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering -…

— Rebecca Hall

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad…

— Fernando Pessoa

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

— Jodie Foster

Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable.

— Miranda Otto

“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole…

— Bette Davis