Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

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'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

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.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Strong female leads are important.

I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

In numbers there is strength, and we in America must help the women of the world.

Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.

All women are forces of nature, and I believe in their power.

As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.

You look at Kerry Washington on 'Scandal,' and a lot of the women on that show in general are very strong, and I think we're seeing it more, and I'm excited because when I was doing Dana Gordon on 'Entourage,' there weren't a lot of strong female characters, which is why I think she came out as such a standout character.

It's important to have strong images of women out there, women who aren't afraid of expressing themselves, women who aren't afraid of taking chances, women who aren't afraid of their own power.

I've been in the fortunate position of playing these strong, snarky female characters since Dana Gordon on 'Entourage.'