Carla Gugino Quotes

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

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

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

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.