Quotes About Industry

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.

I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

"Well, we knew it. Women can't sell movies". That's what it used to be like. "Well, this movie did well, but it's a fluke."

I wasn't invited to be on staff at the Simpsons because they didn't want any women on staff at the time.

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.

Being in a male-dominated industry, you can feel like a little excluded. That was making me feel like maybe I'm not funny. I was really seriously considering, like, quitting standup.

More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.

Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.

I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can't do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person - when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.

Whether it is a privilege or whether it is a curse, I came into the industry not because I was seeking to be a star or an actor.

I sang at least one hit for almost every star - Dharmendra, Jeetendra and Vinod Khanna included, and several hits for all the Khans, Akshay Kumar, Rishi Kapoor and many more.

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

I have been doing Bhojpuri films since quite some time, have achieved stardom over there and have a huge fan following.