Quotes About Roles

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says open ethnicity.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.