Haley Bennett Quotes

In the past, I have played the roles of subdued, self-sacrificing women. But we need to show our women as bolder individuals. I know this will happen.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

There are still movies where females are just there to be cool, or they are there to lambaste their husbands and scold. But female comedy characters are changing for the better.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.

I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.

When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

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 want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.

It's great for my daughter to see Beyonce and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task. That's very different from when I was growing up - it was all like, 'Stand by your man.'

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

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.

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

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

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.'