Susanna Fogel Quotes

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

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.'

It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

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

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

I see myself as an Islamic feminist because I do not find sustenance in a female identity that has no spiritual roots. So I have been enjoying myself watching interviewers get all confused as I send out mixed signals and shatter their stereotypes. On the one hand, I do wear a scarf, but I am not submissive or quiet -- just the opposite.

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women.

I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.

Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don't need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise - the Wicked Witch.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

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

Apparently, I hear from people I always play strong women. I don't see them that way.