Amy Hoggart Quotes

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women because it's so hard, and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it. I'm a big fan of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and people like that.

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

Olga E. Kagan was the strongest woman I knew - and probably the reason I've spent my life with other strong women.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

I'm interested in women who have got character and experience and an opinion about things.

While growing up, I have had women around me, be it my mother or aunt, who have individually shown me how to be strong.

I'm used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.

I come from really strong women. My mum is really strong, so that's driven that into me, and my grandma was the strongest woman I've known in my life.

I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life.

I grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence.

My mom and my grandmother are probably two of the strongest women that I know.

I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.

It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.

I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because of her defeats that she is to me the lovely one. Out of her defeats she has been born a new quality in woman. I have a name for it. I call it Tandy. I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile. It is the quality of being strong to be loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get.

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.

I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.