Top 101 Heroine Quotes

What I’d look for are roles in which the heroine’s character has substance rather than just glamour.

I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I’ve completed most recently. Yes, I’m faithless and fickle!

I made my debut as a heroine and played a gorgeous role in ‘Kushi.’

I had grown up fantasising of being Yash Chopra’s heroine because I have loved his films.

I am from Chandigarh, and while my friends wanted to pick up a proper job in the corporate world, I was dreaming of becoming a heroine.

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

I’d always wanted to be an action heroine. That’s a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to ‘Dredd’ was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

These days almost every heroine is trying to do an item number but I am the best.

Very rarely a heroine get to act in such a strong role which showcases two different phases of life. ‘Jersey’ is one such film with honest emotions which everyone will relate to easily.

Some people say heroines just have to look good and provide the glamour. Some say, from dance-n-song routines, heroines have come a long way. Today, the heroine’s name adds weight to the film, though maybe they can’t carry the whole film on their names. I believe, yes, we do contribute a lot to films.

There is quality work happening on the web and there is room for everybody to work. It is not just about hero or heroine thing on the web. The focus is also on multiple characters.

The audience simply don’t find a heroine picking a fight with 10 guys as convincing as a hero. So the industry always sticks to psychological thrillers and ghost movies for heroine-oriented projects and this can sustain only for a short time.

As I had visualized, ‘Heroine’ is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes… a journey that revolves around an actress’s life and the showbiz.

I know I’m not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I’m working hard on it.

That first meeting – the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love – is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you’ve won yourself readers.

As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good in her little private theatricals. But her desire to be a heroine, both literally and figuratively, was shocking to the French.

In films, usually we see romantic relationships between a hero and a heroine all the time. But we rarely see love between the older generations.

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She’s selfish, she’s childish, she’s immature and because I’m doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

I want to develop women-oriented films because, in most of the films, 70 per cent of the focus is on heroes and the rest on the heroine.

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.

I love that Moana is a heroine, and I hope people take that away, and that you most certainly can be the heroine, or hero, of your own story.

I think I always had an unconventional career because I didn’t fit the mould of the conventional heroine.

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a ‘pretty girl.’ Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I’m sent, and they describe the heroine as ‘incredibly beautiful,’ I wonder why they sent it to me.

I’m happy with my commercial heroine tag.

I think ‘Heroine’ was Kareena Kapoor’s best ever role of her career.

I’ve tried to be inclusive in my ‘2B’ series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.

If I’m going to get overshadowed in a film, it’s because of something that I haven’t done, not because of what the other heroine has done or because I’ve focused on the amount of scenes she had in the film.

I think for a heroine to do comedy and action and also be glamorous is a big thing. That’s why ‘Supreme’ will be very close to my heart.

For the most part, romance is written in third person, and it’s written in multiple points of view, so you’re in the hero’s head, and you’re in the heroine’s head. I’ve always said that I’m more of a narrator than a creator.

The audiences have a certain perspective of every heroine and one should not go against it.

For a woman who didn’t want to be an actress, who is too tall, lanky, shy, and who didn’t fit into a Hindi conventional heroine, I am overwhelmed that my audiences have accepted me in India and the world.

I did a great deal of research to write ‘The Irish Duke.’ Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn’t come only with good looks: talent matters.

I’m sure I will play the typical Hindi film heroine and have my song and dance routines in future.

Catwoman is Batman’s one true love. She’s tremendously popular with women because she’s both a heroine and a villainess.

I am 100-films old. In my heyday, I have done a lot of commercial films, including dancing around the trees with the heroine. But after working with Rituparno Ghosh, my understanding of cinema changed. Whatever good I am doing, it is because of him. If I am being called a good actor, it is only because of him.

I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie – I’m not telling you the name because I was terrible.

I need a combination of attitude, sensuality, and vulnerability. I need a new kind of heroine. After Bipasha Basu and Sunny Leone, India now needs an even more unique fantasy figure.

I realise that there is a certain expectation from a ‘typical heroine’ in Bollywood. She is expected to be beautiful and have a toned body. And to achieve that, I have literally starved myself.

In the ’70s and ’80s, there was a definite set of roles in a film. There would be a hero, a heroine and a villain.

‘The Notebook’ was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.

Darcy, the heroine of ‘Something Blue,’ is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes ‘gingers,’ i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by ‘my’ comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction.

Kim Kardashian’s marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

I feel that a heroine or a leading character is someone who stays back with you, and I would like to believe that all my characters have stayed with people.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It’s not about being the number one heroine or money. It’s about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

I loved ‘Homeland’ – it’s such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

‘Daddy’ is an amazing Bollywood debut for me. I don’t play a typical Bollywood heroine. It’s a performance-oriented role.

First you wonder if they’re separate stories, but no, they’re not, they’re contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can’t go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.

I started as a child artist, and not as a heroine, as most would think. I was performing on stage once when the late Bimal Roy saw me and asked me if I would work in films. I was too tiny. Without realising, I just said yes.

I knew that the only way to get noticed would be by doing something that was not expected of me. I was sure I wouldn’t get noticed if I continued to play the heroine in films like ‘Chashme Baddoor.’

I have no regret about making ‘Heroine’; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.