Desperate Quote by Maxine Peake

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

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act…

— Joan Hickson

I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great…

— Ian McLeod

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

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

— Geraldine James

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing…

— Al Pacino

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a…

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

I'd love to play Juliet, that would be my dream role.

— Joanna Page

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

— Blythe Danner

Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless,…

— Ellen Terry

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than…

— Julia Stiles