Rosamund Pike Quotes

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

There's an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.

People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films because, ultimately, that's what the women have always done.

A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.