Susanna Fogel Quotes

The truth is, there are so few female roles in movies. That's really limiting. As an actor, you wanna be able to sink your teeth into something. You don't want to just be the best friend. You don't want to just be the girlfriend.

People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

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

There aren't enough meaty roles for actresses. Also, most actresses aren't ready to take risks.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

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

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

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 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.'

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

When I first came to Hollywood to make 'Mortal Kombat' back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don't work and American studios didn't want to make them.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

Not all the roles that I've gotten were stereotypical, but in Korea, especially for TV, it's a bit limited for women in their twenties and thirties. There aren't enough female roles.

I have been very fortunate that the Punjabi audience connected with me so well. Otherwise female actors are not repeated much in this industry.