Isabella Rossellini Quotes

I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

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

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

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.

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

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.'

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.

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.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

I won't say there aren't 'smart' roles for women, but the variety is limited. I feel the real representation is not widely available in Bollywood.

I grew up watching films that presented male perspectives of women.