Female Quotes - Page 15

• Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.

  Eminem

  Song, Men, Hands

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• I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Support, Competition

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• Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

  Anna Faris

  Males, Hollywood, Executives

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• I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.

  Jared Leto

  Needs, Knows

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• I don’t find it fun watching someone trying to be sexy. It’s whack. I’m trying to just show my true personality, and I think that means more than anything else. I think when personality is at the forefront, its not about male or female, its just about, who is this weird character?

  Nicki Minaj

  Sexy, Fun, Character

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• I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

  Portia de Rossi

  Strong Women, Character, Let Me

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• I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man - and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Thinking, Views

  "Madonna: The Director's Cut". Interview with Naomi Wolf, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 9, 2011.

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• From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

  Rose McGowan

  Empowerment, Age, Underdog

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jun 09, 2012

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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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• It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective.

  Jessica Chastain

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Jessica Chastain Wants More Female Protagonists: 'Where is the Scarlett Johansson Superhero Movie?'" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. September 3, 2014.

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• The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Smart, Character, Interesting

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• I'm an atheist, so it was actually a joy. Spitting on Christ was a great deal of fun. I can't embrace a male god who has persecuted female sexuality throughout the ages. And that persecution still goes on today all over the world.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Atheist, Fun, Joy

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• Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

  Ariel Winter

  Book, Men, Nerd

  "Voicing THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: Ariel Winter". Interview, www.dccomics.com. September 25, 2012.

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• I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

  Tia Carrere

  Smart, Play, Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm conflicted. On one hand, I don't want to say that because you were a man and now you're a woman, you can't be in a women's fashion show. But I feel it's a dicey issue. The fact of the matter is, when you are transgender - if you go, say, male to female - you're not having your pelvis broken and having it expanded surgically. You still have the anatomical bone structure of a man.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Men, Hands

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• The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you can’t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind.

  Kasi Lemmons

  Country, People, Challenges

  "Interview: Kasi Lemmons & Raphael Saadiq Talk ‘Black Nativity’ – Casting, Soundtrack & More". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2013.

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• Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

  Joely Richardson

  Two, Numbers, Years

  "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

  Elle Fanning

  Girl, Clothes, Directors

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• Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

  Courtney Love

  Giving, Scream, Like You

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

  Connie Nielsen

  Mother, Order, Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.

  Julia Stiles

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Daily News, April 12, 1999.

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• I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

  Twiggy

  Trying, Males, Want

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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, Drastic

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• It has nothing to do with [Renee] being a female or not, it has to do with her being the right person for the job. She’s got a great voice that cuts through the clutter. She is very knowledgeable about WWE, about its history, about the talent and she is really willing to step up and do her homework. I think you’re going to see her grow. You’re going to see her jump on this challenge to become a regular fixture and a regular voice and, hopefully, maybe one day the voice of WWE.

  Triple H

  Jobs, Cutting, Thinking

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• Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

  Chaz Bono

  Strong, Acting, Identity

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