Quotes About Roles

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

There are not many good roles for women.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.

I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.