Character Quote by Rebecca Hall

All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women…

— Vincent Cassel

I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I do see a lot of roles that are, like, the girlfriend or the love interest or the girl next door. Maybe not totally…

— Natalia Dyer

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they're repellent and lovable. They're not likable, but…

— Rebecca Hall

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange.…

— Joan Allen

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth…

— Judy Davis

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no…

— Aja Naomi King

I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering -…

— Rebecca Hall

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect…

— Mila Kunis

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

— Julianna Margulies

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

— Wallace Shawn

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

— Jeremy Renner