Lotte Verbeek Quotes

I love strong female characters.

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

I like to play strong women.

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

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

Strong female leads are important.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

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

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 like playing strong female parts.

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 think women are strong, and they have never been weak.

Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so many of its goals-not every single one of them, obviously-but I think we should say it's great that these young women don't feel like they need to be feminists.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

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'm proud to represent the average woman.

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

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.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

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.

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.