Top 90 Female Characters Quotes

People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don’t feel like that’s my specialty.

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There’s a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

I can’t wait to take my son to see ‘Wonder Woman’ – I can’t wait to show him all the female characters can be well-rounded people.

The female characters in ‘Peep Show’ are not ‘strong’: they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

We’re showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common, none of us will ever be exactly the same. So it’s enormously important to me that my female characters be people, and be allowed to be whatever they need to be.

Very good female characters, that’s all we want. It’s happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.

The beauty of ‘The Hunger Games’ and also ‘Game of Thrones,’ in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women… The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

I’ve always preferred drag roles, because typically I get better costumes and I’ve always felt more connected with the female characters in my favorite shows than most of the male characters.

I’m attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That’s my own reality, so it’s a doorway into a world for me.

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, ‘No, she’s the book,’ and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.

I’m really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don’t involve romantic components. That’s so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it’s built in – but I’d like to find a way that it’s not. There are so many more stories than that.

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don’t normally see female characters portraying on screen.

It is good that in our TV industry, stories revolve around female characters more than male characters but there should be no sex war.

You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

When I realised that what I do really well is play women who are tough and vulnerable, it was a moment of clarity. Many female characters either have one trait or the other, but I play both. I don’t need to play characters who are like me. I can just do that with my life.

I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

As black women, we’re miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major blockbuster films.

I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn’t consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that’s not stereotypical, even if I’m playing a stereotypical role.

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I’d just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that’s changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn’t be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don’t have any problem with that.

The big takeaway I got from ‘Thelma & Louise’ was the reaction of women who had seen the movie being so profound, so different. It was overwhelming, and it made me realise how few opportunities we give women to feel excited and empowered by female characters, to come out of a movie pumped.

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.

Even if I have played female characters, nobody has ever teased my kids.

The shows which have strong female characters are long overdue. I think there should be more and I am glad to see that there are more. There are fantastic female and diverse actors all around the world. I am glad to see that they are getting more recognition and being pushed into light more and more.

Even while I’m really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I’m not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are ‘strong.’

I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.

‘The Hobbit’ didn’t include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

It’s nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it’s always about the males.

Though I had not been offered a truckload of projects post the release of ‘Mayaanadhi,’ the handful that came to me had brilliant female characters that were driving forces of the story.

If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery of the female characters’ reality. My new reaction was sadness and fury. Knowledge ruins everything!

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I’m writing about women, I think I’m writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

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

I’m not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.

I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.

For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.

I’m just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see is how, in the same way good male directors get a shot at creating interesting male and female characters, women do as well.

It’s not often you get female characters who don’t fit into a box.

A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in those movies can be and who they are.

What I thought would be fun would be Squirrel Girl being this computer science student, working in STEM, because you don’t see a lot of characters there, never mind female characters. Also, I studied computer science, so it’s not too hard to write.

Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

With every movie, I am trying in my own little way to do whatever I can to change the way female characters have been presented and how an actress that comes from a family outside the industry is making an impact.

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.