Richa Pallod Quotes

Is typecasting really a problem?

We heroines don't get good roles.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

The studios always had their idea of what I was, and they'd give me the dumb-blonde roles.

I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.

With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.

I read so many scripts, and it's not really exciting to just be the girlfriend.

I have a problem with the term 'leading man.' It's so limiting; it involves not upsetting anyone. Obviously, we have anti-heroes now, but if we're talking about the two tropes - character actor and leading man - I would so rather be a character actor. That's why I have a career.

In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an item girl.

When you do a film with somebody who's my age - which is always the role of a mother or a grandmother - despite of well-defined characters, you don't get to play a very large part as the main leads get prominence.

I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you're pretty and slim and glamorous there's no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.

I'm not a big fan of dealing with stereotypes because I think everybody's unique and I have met plenty of people who have bucked their stereotypes. But there are things that women are physiologically better suited to.

For a woman, there is a complete dearth of roles to do. Abroad, you really have good roles, and by good roles, I don't mean the film has to be women oriented. I wouldn't mind playing a well-written, small role.

For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.

I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.

Given that many girls are indoctrinated to believe that they should be feminine and modest about their abilities, as well as brought up to assume that girls are not innately gifted at science or math, it is not surprising that so few can see themselves as successful computer scientists.