Gal Gadot Quotes

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

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 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.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.

I've always - from my very first film, 'Shopping,' which was Jude Law and Sadie Frost, I mean, I've always liked strong women characters in films.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

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

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.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

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.

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

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

It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

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.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.