James Denton Quotes

I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

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

Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we've only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won't see movies with girls as protagonists.

I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,' just because a movie is about a kid, doesn't mean it's for kids, and just because a movie is about a girl, doesn't mean it's for girls.

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

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

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

'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast.

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't.

The studios always had their idea of what I was, and they'd give me the dumb-blonde roles.

I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.