Ari Graynor Quotes

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

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.'

I still feel, when I meet actresses, no matter how high-profile they are, that they are starved for good roles.

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

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'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

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

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

I'd like to do some female roles again.

Why is it so difficult to have films seeing the world from women's perspective like 'Thelma and Louise?'

We are in an industry where, unfortunately, there is very limited scope for female-oriented roles. If we don't have options, how can we pick and choose roles?

It's already not as easy, in the sense that interesting roles for girls and women tend to be few and far between. That's just the reality that I think most people would agree with. So that can be frustrating. I just get sent so many things that are like, "So, here's another story about a guy...." But that's just what it is. I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'