Acting Quote by Kent Haruf

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

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by…

— Courtney A. Kemp

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.

— Ashly Burch

Though the characters I have played are all very different, they are all strong, interesting women.

— Shruti Haasan

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

— Zooey Deschanel

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a…

— Lili Taylor

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

— Katee Sackhoff

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and…

— Todd Haynes

I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

— Sudha Murty