Dee Wallace Quotes

I'm not a single mum, I am just a mum.

'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

It's so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

A woman opening a movie with no other star is like a miracle.

It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.

Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need that whole conversation.

My mum's a single mum, I'm a single mum, and you do find yourself rushing around just to make sure everything's all right.

I always had musicians in my band having children, and their wives were the ones at home taking care of the kids. So I never thought much of it. And then suddenly I'm the parent, but I'm the woman, and it's like, 'Ah, what happens now?'

It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.

There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as any other white actor. That's what I'm trying to get at.

I have two sons and I have taught them to respect women. They have also seen how I, a single mother, have raised them.

I had done drama at university, but I never thought I could be a director. There were so few female directors then. I just assumed you had to be a man to be a director. I also assumed you had to be extremely authoritarian and extremely intellectual, none of which I was.

I would have loved to do a film like 'Piku' or 'Neerja.' But I never got a role where a woman played an authoritative role. In my time, the hero and the villain were both men. The heroine was only the victim.

I feel for a film to be accepted, women have to take to it. The women bring the rest of the family to the theatres.

My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn't expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing - which is interesting but uncomfortable.

I was the first guy from a modelling background to successfully venture into films.

Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home. Yes okay, that's the way it was. But certainly it isn't that women weren't able to do it.

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

It's 2015, and I'm the first female coach in any of the major sports. That's ridiculous!

I have often been many companies' first experience with a gender-variant model. I am proud of that because I think I have broadened their horizons in my own way.

All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character.

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.