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I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic fe...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a...
OCTAVIA SPENCER I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.
PAZ VEGA![]()
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
ZOE SALDANA Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They'...
EDIE FALCO I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of th...
SALLY QUINN I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
FELICITY JONES I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected...
CARRIE COON I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receiv...
DYLAN O'BRIEN I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receiv...
DYLAN O'BRIEN![]()
For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the...
ADAM GRANT There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's ...
MEGAN FOLLOWS I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really a...
BEL POWLEY![]()
I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson r...
GENE WILDER I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women...
IDA LUPINO It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE![]()
I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an in...
LAILA ALI When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends...
KEELEY HAWES Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultim...
KABIR BEDI There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly...
IMOGEN POOTS I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I jus...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of t...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I believe women have played major roles, both tangible or intangible, in the imperial family.
EMPEROR AKIHITO![]()
We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, wher...
MONICA BELLUCCI It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women,
SUSAN SARANDON![]()
I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in th...
SHERYL SANDBERG Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
NAOMI WATTS![]()
Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary.
BIANCA FRAZIER![]()
I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for wome...
RACHAEL TAYLOR![]()
I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great.
NIKKI HALEY![]()
I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of Af...
KAT GRAHAM![]()
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi...
AUNJANUE ELLIS![]()
I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.
KIRSTEN DUNST![]()
I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel rel...
MORGAN FREEMAN![]()
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I...
JACLYN SMITH![]()
I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys an...
RACHEL NICHOLS I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do r...
NORM MACDONALD One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like ...
JENNIFER DOUDNA![]()
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
SHERYL SANDBERG I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women ...
FOXY BROWN What I think is so special and so unique about (these women), is that they come from a variety of le...
GINA MANLOVE Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep...
BENITO MARTINEZ I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there ar...
EMILY RIOS![]()
I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really ...
AARON RODGERS![]()
I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really wa...
SALLY FIELD There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
SAMANTHA MATHIS We've made so much headway with storytelling - mostly on cable, let's be honest - but also o...
DYLAN WALSH![]()
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who asser...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles t...
LAILA ROBINS![]()
I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's ...
HALSTON SAGE I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughte...
CAROL GILLIGAN Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anyt...
RONNY COX I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
CAROLYN SEE I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
ED WESTWICK![]()
I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don'...
ROSE MCGOWAN![]()
I'm into women. I've always loved women.
DAVID GEST Defiance ... I would wager she just happens to have gotten those period roles because it was a turni...
JANE ANDERSON I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an act...
TALULAH RILEY I have done all kinds of roles, but Tony Montana's role in 'Scarface' is something I wou...
SANJAY DUTT What I'm not about is exploiting women.
CALLIE KHOURI![]()
The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very pas...
CHERIE BLAIR I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I&#...
ED O'NEILL![]()
I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try ...
SANDRA LEE![]()
You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have...
GAIL COLLINS There just aren't that many roles written for young women that are character-y kind of roles, especi...
ANNA FARIS![]()
What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so o...
PAUL WESLEY Some women give birth and then two weeks later look amazing. I don't think I'm going to be o...
SARA RUE I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable ...
ZIYI ZHANG![]()
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginat...
A. S. BYATT![]()
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more oft...
FRANK SINATRA There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the ...
GAL GADOT Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this rid...
AMANDA DONOHOE![]()
It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women shoul...
DAKOTA JOHNSON![]()
There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a ...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY![]()
I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have si...
EVANGELINE LILLY I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously come...
JASON WILES I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To ...
FRED WARD You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular...
JASON CLARKE![]()
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm com...
BARBARA BUSH![]()
A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women wor...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN![]()
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no wome...
STEVE HARVEY I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
KATE DEL CASTILLO![]()
Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play stro...
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD![]()
I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut ...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN![]()
I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement'...
ARIEL LEVY![]()
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
MITCH HEDBERG Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me ...
CONSTANCE WU I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's wha...
GILBERT HERNANDEZ I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news....
ELIZA DOOLITTLE![]()
I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Am...
ZOE FOSTER BLAKE I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I&...
CAMPBELL SCOTT We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
LILLY WACHOWSKI There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but al...
KRISTEN BELL![]()
I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I fee...
SALMA HAYEK![]()
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a...
MISSY PEREGRYM![]()
I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.
JOHN GALLIANO![]()
In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attractin...
DELTA BURKE
MARTHA PLIMPTON I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic fe...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a...
OCTAVIA SPENCER I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.
PAZ VEGA
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. ZOE SALDANA Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They'...
EDIE FALCO I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of th...
SALLY QUINN I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
FELICITY JONES I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected...
CARRIE COON I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receiv...
DYLAN O'BRIEN I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receiv...
DYLAN O'BRIEN
For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the... ADAM GRANT There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's ...
MEGAN FOLLOWS I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really a...
BEL POWLEY
I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson r... GENE WILDER I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women...
IDA LUPINO It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE
I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an in... LAILA ALI When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends...
KEELEY HAWES Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultim...
KABIR BEDI There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly...
IMOGEN POOTS I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I jus...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of t...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I believe women have played major roles, both tangible or intangible, in the imperial family.
EMPEROR AKIHITO
We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, wher... MONICA BELLUCCI It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women,
SUSAN SARANDON
I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in th... SHERYL SANDBERG Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
NAOMI WATTS
Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary. BIANCA FRAZIER
I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for wome... RACHAEL TAYLOR
I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great. NIKKI HALEY
I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of Af... KAT GRAHAM
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi... AUNJANUE ELLIS
I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me. KIRSTEN DUNST
I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel rel... MORGAN FREEMAN
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I... JACLYN SMITH
I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys an... RACHEL NICHOLS I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do r...
NORM MACDONALD One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like ...
JENNIFER DOUDNA
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be. SHERYL SANDBERG I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women ...
FOXY BROWN What I think is so special and so unique about (these women), is that they come from a variety of le...
GINA MANLOVE Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep...
BENITO MARTINEZ I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there ar...
EMILY RIOS
I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really ... AARON RODGERS
I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really wa... SALLY FIELD There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
SAMANTHA MATHIS We've made so much headway with storytelling - mostly on cable, let's be honest - but also o...
DYLAN WALSH
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who asser... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles t...
LAILA ROBINS
I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's ... HALSTON SAGE I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughte...
CAROL GILLIGAN Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anyt...
RONNY COX I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
CAROLYN SEE I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
ED WESTWICK
I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don'... ROSE MCGOWAN
I'm into women. I've always loved women. DAVID GEST Defiance ... I would wager she just happens to have gotten those period roles because it was a turni...
JANE ANDERSON I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an act...
TALULAH RILEY I have done all kinds of roles, but Tony Montana's role in 'Scarface' is something I wou...
SANJAY DUTT What I'm not about is exploiting women.
CALLIE KHOURI
The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very pas... CHERIE BLAIR I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I&#...
ED O'NEILL
I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try ... SANDRA LEE
You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have... GAIL COLLINS There just aren't that many roles written for young women that are character-y kind of roles, especi...
ANNA FARIS
What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so o... PAUL WESLEY Some women give birth and then two weeks later look amazing. I don't think I'm going to be o...
SARA RUE I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable ...
ZIYI ZHANG
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginat... A. S. BYATT
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more oft... FRANK SINATRA There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the ...
GAL GADOT Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this rid...
AMANDA DONOHOE
It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women shoul... DAKOTA JOHNSON
There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a ... ELIZABETH BERKLEY
I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have si... EVANGELINE LILLY I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously come...
JASON WILES I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To ...
FRED WARD You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular...
JASON CLARKE
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm com... BARBARA BUSH
A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women wor... MADELEINE M. KUNIN
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no wome... STEVE HARVEY I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
KATE DEL CASTILLO
Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play stro... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD
I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut ... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement'... ARIEL LEVY
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. MITCH HEDBERG Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me ...
CONSTANCE WU I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's wha...
GILBERT HERNANDEZ I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news....
ELIZA DOOLITTLE
I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Am... ZOE FOSTER BLAKE I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I&...
CAMPBELL SCOTT We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
LILLY WACHOWSKI There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but al...
KRISTEN BELL
I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I fee... SALMA HAYEK
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go... B. B. KING I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a...
MISSY PEREGRYM
I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want. JOHN GALLIANO
In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attractin... DELTA BURKE
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es... 
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. 
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested ... 