Claudia Kim Quotes

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

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

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

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

A lot of the time, unfortunately for women, there's not a lot of complex roles. I don't mean complex like tortured or whatever. I mean complex like there's more going on with them than, 'I'm a mom.'

I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.

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

I won't say there aren't 'smart' roles for women, but the variety is limited. I feel the real representation is not widely available in Bollywood.

Hindi cinema hasn't moved at all in terms of roles for actresses beyond 18 years.

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

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

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

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.