Double standards Quote by Michelle Monaghan

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

— Piper Laurie

If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent…

— Rakul Preet Singh

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to…

— Katharine Isabelle

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that,…

— Ellen Barkin

I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go…

— Winona Ryder

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

— Bret Easton Ellis

If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable…

— Kami Garcia

As a woman in Hollywood, you don't always want to be that damsel in distress or that victim.

— Michelle Monaghan

“You don’t have her class, her morals or her kindness, and your looks and pussy will only get you so far in Hollywood. Now,…

— Ruby Rowe

I think it's really important that you don't get caught up in the way the filmmaking community isolates you and the way your life…

— Zal Batmanglij

It is not a shocker to me that a film went out of my hands, not because I was not credible, but because I…

— Taapsee Pannu

People are quick to stereotype you and very lazy in their imagination to think beyond the first few films a heroine does.

— Shweta Tripathi