Ruth Bradley Quotes

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 have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.

I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written as a boy can be equally written for a girl. It's like you said, just write a character as if it were a man, and then turn it and make it into a woman. It's like, we're human beings, after all.

I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.