When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
You can go as far as your mind lets you.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
You are more powerful than you think.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.
People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.
The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art. She speaks to me. She was brutally honest in her work. At that time in fine art, you really didn't see many female artists expressing that. She was such a strong female presence, and I really look up to her. She had a lot of physical pain.
When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety of all of those things. Emotionally, ethically - I'm less concerned with that. I just don't want them to be props. That's the only thing that offends me.
I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and conquers fears. I want my children to know that as women they can do whatever they dream as long as they believe in themselves. More than anything it is my responsibility to instill in my daughters the knowledge that they can have a family and everything else too.
I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.
I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.
Strong female leads are important.
When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.
I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.
What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.
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