Geraldine Page Quotes

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

Most female characters have either been the temptress - like a Betty Boop type - or the victim - like an Olive Oil type.

Let's be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.

If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

I won't name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.

The thing is to convince people that a part not written for a Latina woman - or maybe not even written for a woman at all - is a female part. You convince them you can do it.

Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or something.

I was a journalist's dream case study; a gobby girl with an accent who was good at engineering.

I had become a victim of people's perceptions. It's not just me, I think all actresses are.

This industry is quick to stereotype. People had started talking about how I was primarily being part of women-centric movies. I didn't want to be labelled as part of a mahila morcha.

I've done bit parts on shows where I've been the fat girl or the punk rocker.

Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.

I've not been discriminated against, but I can see it happen. And not just race but gender and sexuality, too. It's stereotyping, lazy casting, which is an issue: that people can't see outside the box.

When I started out rapping, I became very frightened by the idea that people were trying to pigeonhole me. That's usually what happens to most female rappers. They fit in a box and there's a prototype or person they're compared to.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

Obviously, guys don't deal with the same level of criticism if they show off their bodies. Russian President Vladimir Putin literally staged a goofy shirtless photo shoot to show the people of Russia how 'handsome' and 'fit' he is. No one questioned his ability to lead a country as a result, although a lot of people did crack jokes about it.

I am an actor. It's very unfair when people categorise and term me as a television actor or film actor.

In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting.