Olivia Thirlby Quotes

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly 'Bond.'

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.

The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she's very experienced. She understands a lot about man. Whereas, in the standalone movie, we are telling the grown-up story, Diana becoming Wonder Woman, and this was a story that was never told before.

I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.

I felt that, with 'Zatanna,' I had a chance to do a story about a strong, driven woman.

I wish someone would make an Indian equivalent of 'Kill Bill' with me. That would be awesome.