Character Quote by Supriya Pathak

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

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be…

— Natalie Dormer

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding…

— Samantha Bond

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses,…

— Jewel Staite

Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus…

— Jake Weber

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

— Francis Bacon

There's talk of the lack of roles for older women. It's so tough and it's soul-destroying what some female actors do to their faces…

— Lara Pulver

You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

— Haley Bennett

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

— Rebecca Traister

“Hollywood wives. The younger generation.”

— Jackie Collins

It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on…

— Frances McDormand

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

— Juliette Binoche