Tamra Davis Quotes

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.

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

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

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

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

I'm dying to do a masala Bollywood film with typical song and dance. But having said that, my character in the film should have her own point of view. I won't play a role who has no brains.

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

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

Strong female leads are important.

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'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as.

In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.

I'd read a lot of books where the girls are in awe of the supernatural male, so I thought it was time to write about an awesome and super-powerful female who is also quite vulnerable and naive about life on earth.

I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn't have to be a big movie, but I'm just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind.

You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character.