Sigourney Weaver Quotes

I'm always really comfortable writing strong, smart ladies. That's kind of my bailiwick.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

Roles for women need to be better written.

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

Why aren't there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?

I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show.