Nancy Travis Quotes

Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.

'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

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

Boys are so much drama.

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

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.