Chloe Sevigny Quotes

I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?

I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.

I'm not really a femme fatale.

Catwoman has an awesome, iconic personality. It's a blast to write her. You get her; she's an archetype. You can just kind of put on the cat-suit.

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.

I'm an October baby, yes.

I always love the domineering, slightly wicked women on screen.

I look at people like Helen Mirren, Emma Thompson, Goldie Hawn, they're the people I want to be.

I grew up listening to such strong female solo artists. I love Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears.

My birthday is in November, so I think I'm a Scorpio? I'm not even sure!

I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.

I love strong women like Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, and Charlize Theron.

It's not often that I'm being called femme fatale.

Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She's a Scorpio, like me.

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.