Lara Pulver Quotes

If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

It happens a lot that women have to play the girlfriend role, which isn't as three-dimensional as the male role.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.