Rachael Stirling Quotes

You want to see women your own age in films.

It's not just about young people - there are films being made that deal with women getting older. That's a huge bonus, and here in America, that's a huge step forward.

It's amazing that we have lead females on television and a couple of them over 40. Thank you very much. And being beautiful and strong and sexy and everything that you hope for.

I'm absolutely certain that audiences want to see older women on their TVs.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

How do I think the industry's changed? Films have changed a lot. I think women are finally able to get older and be sexy just like men. So I'm really enjoying that part - that's my evolution.

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

I do work with a lot of women in my company, and I write a lot of roles for women over 40. I think, in 'Feud' alone, we have 15 roles for women over 40, which I'm very proud about.

So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that.

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.