Hilary Swank Quotes

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

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.'

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

A woman opening a movie with no other star is like a miracle.

Disney has proved without a shadow of a doubt that movies with a female lead work.

With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

I read so many scripts, and it's not really exciting to just be the girlfriend.

I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

Marilyn Monroe Productions was the first female-owned production company in Hollywood. She paved the way for women in Hollywood, and every single woman owes something to her for that, whether they agree with her image or not.

If your film and character are a hit, chances are you'll get typecast in that space.

How will I become Meryl Streep if I can't even get in the door with Jennifer Lawrence for the same role? I think that it starts with casting directors and executives and studio heads opening up their minds, and really putting an effort into being trans inclusive in their projects, whether they're trans-specific or not.

Why was it important for women to be only nice? Why can't she have dark layers? So when they came to me - films like 'Maqbool' and 'Astitva' - they just grabbed me, and I wanted to be part of them.

I didn't have a lot of men to ask questions of when I was starting out. There were two female directors people suggested I talk to when I was starting out, and they were Nancy Meyers and Kathryn Bigelow.