Sarah Snook Quotes

I do like to get inspired by and support any female leads.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

I appreciate the positivity of those 'year of the woman' articles - it's good to get that energy out there - but at the same time, in Hollywood it's not happening yet.

Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.

It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.

I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.

There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good stories, and good stories involve men and women.

There are great female role models out there, and I just feel very proud to be able to represent them in my work.

Why aren't there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

I just love seeing other females work.

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

I'm the biggest draw in the sport, and I'm a woman.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

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.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.