Song Hye-kyo Quotes

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.

For a woman, there is a complete dearth of roles to do. Abroad, you really have good roles, and by good roles, I don't mean the film has to be women oriented. I wouldn't mind playing a well-written, small role.

Being a woman, an actor in Hollywood, I know that there are certain parts I won't often get a chance to do.

Usually, if there is a woman's part in a piece, there's only one, so you've got no other actresses to work with.

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

Men don't hear women.

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

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

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

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.

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.'

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

I mean, I've been in a very male-dominated industry from a very young age.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

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.