Frustrating Quote by Phoebe Fox

I read so many scripts, and it's not really exciting to just be the girlfriend.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him…

— Lara Pulver

The strength of the script, for me, was that you're really left, right till the end, to know what's happening. This seemingly perfect, happy,…

— Harry Treadaway

All it really takes to fall in love with a script is to understand, right off the bat, one piece of the story.

— Lucas Hedges

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 really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has…

— Linda Woolverton

“many romance authors seem to recycle their books and only change the cover, the characters’ names, and the settings. The plot, dialogue, and even…

— Anonymous

I don't really want to just play the girlfriend or the love interest. I get so many scripts like that, and - not to…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's…

— Emily Browning

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character.…

— Elmore Leonard

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable…

— Mamie Gummer

I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So…

— Karla Souza