Ana de Armas Quotes

I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.

I love strong female characters.

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

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

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

It's wonderful that we're portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.

It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

I've always been interested in a femininity with a bite. I always think a little bit of a kick is great.

All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have emotions and have real-life thoughts.