Archetype Quote by Tatiana Maslany

I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter…

— Alfre Woodard

Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In…

— Vincent Cassel

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

It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at…

— Megan Griffiths

Some actors, they have to carry this macho, very masculine element to them, but it's difficult for me to understand that.

— Romain Duris

I do feel that historically having gendered categories has helped from keeping women actors from a lot of erasure because I think historically people…

— Lily Gladstone

In terms of actors and roles that I want to do in the future, most of those have been played by men. I mean…

— Esme Creed-Miles

I'm not so fascinated by these ingenue roles. I tend to gravitate towards women in plays or shows or films that are more chaotic…

— Hari Nef

I admire actors such as Laura Linney, Cate Blanchett and Andrea Riseborough, who take risks and fight to not be defined by their gender.

— Phoebe Fox

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

It takes me out of that acting moment to be mis-gendered because it feels embarrassing. And I don't think a lot of other actors…

— E. R. Fightmaster

A female's career as an actor is very different from a male's career as an actor. That's just the way it is. So, I'm…

— Abbie Cornish