Adrianne Palicki Quotes

It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young 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 attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

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.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.

I don't think of myself as a powerful woman.

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

I love strong female characters.

I like being a role model - people have told me that I am a role model for empowered women, but I don't see myself that way.

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

I like playing strong female parts.

I remember when I was young, before we started lifting and working out, I looked like I was bench-pressing other humans. I looked different than other girls. I had to be OK with the fact that I had a strong physique, no matter if people looked at me in an accepting way or not.

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

I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.