“There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.” CharacterInterestingTvsAmountFemaleComplexesMalesMessRemarkableSexismFlawedFemale Characters Author:Ellen Pompeo
“I don't think I want to play title roles. I don't want to be the face on the poster. I don't want that pressure of having the success riding on my shoulders. I just want to play the most interesting parts. I actually think it's incredibly rare to get an interesting female character that is the lead in a film. Usually the character parts are so much more interesting to play.” ThinkingWantPlayCharacterFilmFacesInterestingRolesFemalePressureShouldersTitlesRidingMost InterestingPostersFemale CharactersLead In Author:Carey Mulligan
“My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.” WorldDreamFunInterestingLevelsTheoryDramaFemaleOperationsConspiracySpyHigh LevelConspiracy TheoryCovertBourne Author:Ali Larter
“Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.” KindSometimesCharacterHoursAbilityInterestingWiseHeardGeniusHigherMajorsFemaleInstrumentsWorthyRingsMoodFlightPerformingInstantQuartersLoyalBobExecutionAmazedBackwardsBeing WiseHousewifeFuriousInteresting CharactersCapricious Author:Charles Dickens
“I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.” CharacterEasyInterestingFemaleHollywoodNot SureVery InterestingFemale CharactersHollywood Movies Author:Audrey Tautou
“I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.” CharacterInterestingCreaturesFemaleMalesMale Female Author:Rhianna Pratchett
“I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.” ThinkingTryingInterestingRolesFemaleReally GreatAlways TryingSigningFemale RolesSigning Up Author:Georgina Haig
“I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a novel "feminist" simply because the female characters are interesting and strong.” NeedsFeelsMindLittlesDoeCharacterStrongInterestingNovelFeminismFemaleEmbraceFeministFemale Characters Author:Laurie Foos
“It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.” HardInterestingFemaleFlawed Author:Rashida Jones
“It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'” PeopleThinkingBlackInterestingRaceFemaleMy FavoriteGenderComicVersus Author:Ilana Glazer
“I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].” ChildrenBookStoriesWantedFilmGirlInterestingSubjectsFemaleTrainComplexityServingVery Interesting Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.” LooksAgeActorsAsksDifficultInterestingFemaleHarderChinaLook UpMinorities Author:Joan Chen
“Take [the first female] president away from Hillary [Clinton], what's her story? What is fascinating? What's interesting about Hillary? Coughing fits? The lump in her throat that she has to cover with the Mao jacket? What's her story?” FirstsStoriesPresidentInterestingFitFemaleClintonFascinatingThroatJacketsLumpsMaoCoughingFemale President Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day in the water now I'll meet three generations of surfers, male and female, everyone sporting a different craft. I started surfing in the 60s and I can tell you it's infinitely more diverse. It might be more crowded but it's also more interesting.” I CanDifferentMightThreeGivenWaterInterestingGenerationsChangedFemaleMalesCraftsMainstreamDiverseCultSurfingCrowdedSurferThree Generations Author:Tim Winton
“I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.” MenSelfWould BeLife IsInterestingCareersSuccessfulAwarenessStrangeFemaleSelf AwarenessInsightContemporaryAcademicBiographiesUnbelievablePsychoanalysisReally InterestingProminentAndreaBookmarks Author:Laura Marling
“When looking at female body builders and reading about the industry and the culture, their bodies just break down. They end up having to get breast implants and not having menstrual cycles. The obsession of pushing your physical self way beyond what nature is expecting is really interesting. I liked the idea of these women; it's their career, but it's also their obsession.” CultureReadingInterestingBreakFemaleObsessionExpectingBreaking DownReally InterestingBuilderFemale Body Author:Wardell Milan
“I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about the good things or the things that were exciting or interesting but also talk about the things that people in general are skeptical to talk about- the bad things that do happen. A good 50% of our lives is things that are happening that we're not necessarily super thrilled about and I feel like that's missing from pop music a lot of the time so my main goal is to be truthful about everything and not just specific things.” PeopleArtistGoalInterestingMissingFemaleExcitingGood ThingsTruthfulSkepticalPop MusicBeing TruthfulTell Me The Truth Author:Beatrice Miller
“Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my part. It's only recently that that's been pointed out by the media . . . or pointed out by fans. I also find complicated, flawed characters interesting. What's the opposite? To play one-dimensional, boring failures?” CharacterInterestingConsciousFemaleFeministBoringComplicatedFlawed Author:Elisabeth Moss
“I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.” PeopleTryingDifferentRealitySimpleInterestingFemaleFemale Body Author:Valie Export
“I feel like every movie has been wish fulfillment. For The Heat, I love Lethal Weapon. I watch it over and over again. I always wanted a friend like that; I always wanted to be the badass taking down the drug dealers. It was basically just writing what I wished I could be. Female friendship is so interesting to me. I often feel like when you make female friends as adults, it's polite. I wish it was less polite and you could be frank and mess around with each other.” WritingWishInterestingDrugFemaleMessFulfillmentFrankPoliteBadassDealer Author:Katie Dippold
“I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.” ThinkingWayFirstsArtBookCharacterFilmStrongInterestingPicksFemaleChineseClassicMartial ArtsVery StrongVery InterestingTextureFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong FemaleArt Films Author:Ang Lee
“I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.” PeopleIfsWantStoriesTurnsInterestingAttentionOughtDiscoveryFemaleLove StoryExploringLove RelationshipSome Interesting Author:Sylvester Stallone
“I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]” Has BeensStillsDoneCharacterStrongInterestInterestingBalanceFindingsHundredFemaleWeakMalesInterviewsFemininityFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:James Cameron