Camille Kostek Quotes

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease.

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

I think it is important for girls to see movies where it is not all just about 'the boy' or it's simply being about 'the relationship' or 'Am I pretty enough?' or 'Am I cute enough?'.