Words matter. These are the best Female Character Quotes from famous people such as Margot Robbie, Caitlin Moran, Sara Pascoe, Phoebe Robinson, Stellan Skarsgard, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I won’t take parts where the female character has no substance.
I can’t live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don’t have any role models who like cheese!
A show that I loved as a kid was ‘Maid Marian And Her Merry Men’. It was a really strong female character making fun of the boys, an inversion of gender politics. But it was very funny, too. I always wanted to be one of the village people messing about in the mud and being stinky.
I started watching ‘Daria’ when I was in college because I didn’t have cable growing up. It’s such a smart show with a different type of female character.
I’ve worked with Lars von Trier on many films, and there’s always a female character that’s like an open wound – everything just pours out of this person.
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
In ‘Boyz N the Hood,’ every female character was three-dimensional.
Ambition alone cannot define a progressive female character.
As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about ‘You’re the Worst’ is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We’re all complicated, messy human beings.
There’s no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that’s not what makes interesting female characters in my view.
I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don’t think we get to see that enough in television.
When you’ve played Buffy – who’s such a strong female role model – it’s really hard for another female character to compare to her.
I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.
I do love that witches haven’t really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character… a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
I have a real passion for playing a role that’s a strong female character, that’s just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn’t have to be a big movie, but I’m just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind.
I don’t fully understand my wife’s emotions – and I’m supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
I’d like to do something where there’s a strong female character and some action. I’ve done a few stunts in the past.
I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She’s a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we’d just say she’s a strong character, not a strong female character.
It’s interesting to play a female character who’s not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We’ve seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.
If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you’re a hack.
I read the script for ‘Guncrazy’ in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I’d come across that revolved around a strong female character.
In 1996, Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a ‘prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction’ act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.
I’m difficult to cast. In comedy, if there’s a female character, usually written by a bloke, she’s either the ditsy good-looking one, or the sexually aggressive one. I never fit into those.
Usually, witches are the little side character… a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
It’s cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.
I get really excited every time there’s a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man’s arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she’s not the protagonist – and often, even if she is – feels like an imitation of what a woman is.
I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, ‘Oh I wanna play a strong female character,’ like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.
I don’t believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
I loved seeing a lead female character who isn’t perfect and isn’t demonized for it.
In my mind, every single female character I’ve written is plus-size.
Take ‘Ex Machina.’ Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.
Joanna is a strong female character, and I love playing her. But one of the things about her is that she always says exactly what she’s thinking.
I didn’t grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there’s something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.
I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make sure that my female character is not decorative, they are human, they are good, bad, complex and close to reality.
I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.