Action Quote by Victoria Pratt

For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like.…

— Brie Larson

What it feels like is that we want women to conform to a certain image. Which is interesting, insofar as acting is concerned, because,…

— Emma D'Arcy

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

— Katee Sackhoff

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

— Kent Haruf

There is so much bloodshed and action packed into our films these days. Pretty women provide the much-needed respite to the masses from the…

— Priyamani

There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

Women should not only be doing action on-screen but should be a part of every other aspect of filmmaking.

— Esme Creed-Miles

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

— Bel Powley

My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and…

— Allison Pearson

I still think there is a huge emphasis on how women look, whether it's fitting a certain mold to play a certain type of…

— Lily Collins

For a man it's not easy to play a woman onscreen. You have to wax your body. You dress up a lot to be…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan