Bai Ling Quotes

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

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.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

'I'll be back' always sounded a little girly to me.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who had moved out to Chicago and had said really good things about it and about the work. I didn't care at that time about making money.

I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

What does it mean, being a woman?