Elizabeth Meriwether
Related AUNJANUE ELLIS I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic fe... WHITNEY CUMMINGS BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD ADAM DRIVER ROBIN WILLIAMS The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them ... VALORIE CURRY Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on st... ELIZABETH MARVEL JESSICA ALBA JOSH RADNOR FRED WILLARD It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or... DAKOTA FANNING Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref... NAOMI WATTS NANCY MARCHAND TATIANA MASLANY FRANCOIS NARS PATRICK WILSON What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks ro... MELISSA ROSENBERG I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong ... MARTHA PLIMPTON I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's lik... OSCAR ISAAC I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting... CLARE BALDING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It... KATE BECKINSALE There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere... ELLEN POMPEO I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ... BALTASAR KORMAKUR JACQUELINE BISSET JOE ABERCROMBIE I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often... JACK ANTONOFF There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfri... HANNAH MURRAY MIKE NICHOLS What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. ... MADHURI DIXIT NICOLE KIDMAN PAUL WALKER I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of t... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief... RICHARD DOOLING I'm always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there's more oppo... COBIE SMULDERS I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater ... AMANDA PLUMMER I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV. ASHLEY TISDALE I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh m... JACKY IDO I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are... GARRETT DILLAHUNT When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing ... MIREILLE ENOS PETER CAPALDI It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been sim... COURTNEY FORD Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting h... MAGGIE CHEUNG The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses t... GEOFF JOHNS I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE BRIAN DENNEHY LAURIE HOLDEN DYLAN MORAN I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with ... CHRIS WOOD I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play int... DYLAN O'BRIEN I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play int... DYLAN O'BRIEN I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be be... JULIE ANN EMERY NORA EPHRON COLIN TREVORROW GERRY COONEY Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'yo... BOB SAGET Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the re... TOM FELTON BELA LUGOSI SIA I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be fil... DEREK HOUGH I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ... J MASCIS It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that ... PABLO SCHREIBER Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based ... MATTHEW MCGRORY Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. Tha... D. J. MACHALE JOSH HUTCHERSON I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and stro... MACKENZIE DAVIS TERENCE WINTER I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they'r... DARREN STAR I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that pers... CARLA GUGINO I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to f... TIM HEIDECKER Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches. JOHN SANDFORD ANNETTE BENING I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting char... ELISABETH MOSS You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesti... IMELDA STAUNTON PETER GUBER TATIANA MASLANY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't pl... OCTAVIA SPENCER I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That&... NATASCHA MCELHONE MITCH ALBOM CARRIE BROWNSTEIN Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audie... JENNA ELFMAN All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to ... GRAHAM NORTON There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I'... DEREK JACOBI There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy fl... FINN JONES Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY ANSEL ELGORT SUFJAN STEVENS BILL PLYMPTON I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a ... DANIEL HANDLER I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within o... CALLIE THORNE I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People f... BAZ LUHRMANN Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies. KARIN FOSSUM I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film sco... FLUME I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or drama... MIREILLE ENOS RYAN GOSLING There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's ... MEGAN FOLLOWS I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what... RACHEL WEISZ
More Elizabeth Meriwether
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster,... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something abou... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Va... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was con... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly writ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment'... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would com... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as represent... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS Basically, nice guys can finish last. LEE MERIWETHER MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS MERIWETHER LEWIS ELIZABETH ESTY ELIZABETH GASKELL When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le... ELIZABETH WARREN ELIZABETH EDWARDS A good night in is a series of documentaries. 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ELIZABETH DREW My God, I have so much bounty in my life. ELIZABETH MARVEL ELIZABETH ESTY ELIZABETH TAYLOR ELIZABETH TAYLOR I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip... ELIZABETH WARREN I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa... ELIZABETH STROUT ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN ELIZABETH MOON ELIZABETH MOON ELIZABETH EDWARDS Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin... ELIZABETH WARREN The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ... ELIZABETH EMKEN I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un... ELIZABETH REASER ELIZABETH BLACKBURN ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf... ELIZABETH WARREN ELIZABETH ESTY ELIZABETH GILBERT ELIZABETH BERKLEY ELIZABETH BERKLEY ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in... ELIZABETH DREW ELIZABETH KOSTOVA ELIZABETH GASKELL ELIZABETH HARDWICK ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN ELIZABETH GASKELL ELIZABETH GASKELL ELIZABETH II If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ... ELIZABETH GEORGE Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult. ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! 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The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi... 
Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play stro... 
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in thea... 
With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with some... 
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, towa... 
I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who... 
I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way. 
I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the the... 
I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it'... 
My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we h... 
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's i... 
I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love... 
I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do ... 
I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, ... 
I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting probl... 
I say to the writers, please keep writing for us, we're very interesting. And to the directors, plea... 
Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or what... 
Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is ... 
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very in... 
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether ... 
I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just... 
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. 
There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not wh... 
Am I complicated? Nah, I'm interesting. I just like having a good time. 
I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person. 
People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's ... 
'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were i... 
If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it arou... 
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theate... 
The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the P... 
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different c... 
Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn'... 
For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifestin... 
I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. ... 
I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young. 
I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think m... 
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, ... 
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasa... 
Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the d... 
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as... 
We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w... 
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. 
I'm a puzzle doer. 
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. 
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ... 
Everything makes me nervous - except making films. 
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times. 
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! 
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. 
I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni... 
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w... 
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart... 
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ... 
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. 
We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ... 
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all. 
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. 
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. 
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca... 
The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this... 
We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var... 
The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab... 
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask... 
Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im... 
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive... 
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it... 
I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit... 
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. 
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster... 
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome... 
Minds ripen at very different ages. 
My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will... 
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. 
Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No... 
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn... 
The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating 
The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing... 
Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b... 
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa... 
I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo... 
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... 
Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha... 
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! 
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. 
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening... 
He who angers you conquers you. 
When I dream, I am ageless. 
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what... 