Female Character Quotes
On writing and playing complex women.
This page collects quotes from actors and writers on crafting strong female characters, including the extra proving-ground many feel their characters face compared to male leads. See also our Action quotes.
I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she's not.
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Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
Action Quotes
Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're...
There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon...
A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It's all about the story, the character,...
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I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.
I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think we get to see that enough in television.
I grew up on comics in the 1960s era, when 'Wonder Woman' was rather silly. She was an interchangeable female character plagued by bad stereotypes. She cried at the drop of a hat, she was worried about how she looked,...
I always say, if a guy writes the same lead female character type over and over, we are not seeing their writing chops so much as their dating website wishlist.
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
Always Quotes
I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.
Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.
I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes...
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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.
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Other quotes celebrate lead characters allowed to be imperfect without being demonized for it. For lighter takes on character, browse our Always quotes.
