Female Quotes - Page 25

I receive more fan mail from the females.

As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.

When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.

[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.

Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

To your point earlier if a female movie does well they're like "Oohhhh! I can't believe it did well! Maybe the next one will do well, too."

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.

Power is neither male or female.

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

Jessica Jones is the first female superhero Marvel's ever introduced as a lead.

I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.