Beginning Quote by Lana Turner

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend…

— Roma Downey

I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one…

— Richard Linklater

I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that couldn’t contain…

— Miranda July

I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in…

— John Turturro

It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all the good…

— Olivia Wilde

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

— Will Rogers

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then…

— Carole Bouquet

It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great…

— Beth Riesgraf

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

— Dorothy Malone

After I had my baby, I reprioritized my life in general. I really wanted to play characters that gave me a different kind of…

— Anna Faris

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was…

— Joyce DeWitt