Female Characters Quotes - Page 5

• People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, People, Gossip

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2014.

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• You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Winning, Men

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are ‘the poor heartbroken girl.’ That’s why I’m so proud of the Fast movies. I feel like Giselle is an empowering woman.

  Gal Gadot

  Girl, Heartbroken, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. 'So why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you're still asking that question.

  Joss Whedon

  Strong, Writing, Character

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• I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Long, Female

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• The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

  Jane Heller

  Character, Giving, Energy

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• I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool'.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Sexy, Strong, Character

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• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

  Lena Dunham

  Character, Female, Flawed

  "Lena Dunham and Producer Judd Apatow Talk HBO Series GIRLS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 26, 2012.

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

  Zooey Deschanel

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  "Zooey Deschanel on Why New Girl Fits Her Like the Perfect Dress". Interview with Rose Curiel, www.popsugar.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

  Jessica Chastain

  Character, Office, Female

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.

  Karla Souza

  Character, Two, Scripts

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.

  Lena Dunham

  Summer, Writing, Character

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.

  Megan Griffiths

  Character, Males, Female

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• This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.

  Geena Davis

  Real, Character, Csi

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• My point was the world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool one, maybe even an important one. But where are all the rest?

  Geena Davis

  Character, Missing, Important

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  Anna Kendrick

  Strong, Character, Female

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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• Women are always murdered and maimed, and they’re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst] has just written what should have been written a long time ago. There shouldn’t be anything that different about Vikings, but there is, because there’ve just been so many shows that have not stepped up to the plate and given female actors and female characters equal footing.

  Clive Standen

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

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• I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Character, Trying, Female

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• The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Strong Women, Character, Personality

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• I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Males, Female

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• I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.

  Len Wein

  Character, Gay, Thinking

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• I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

  Amanda Schull

  Strong, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with her or G-rated videos or whatever; I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that there seemed to be far more male characters than female characters in what we make for little kids. It was just a shock.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Believe, Kids

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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