Madchen Amick Quotes

I don't really want to just play the girlfriend or the love interest. I get so many scripts like that, and - not to moan, because I'm really fortunate - but I just look at those scripts, and my heart sinks a little bit because I think there's so much more to us than that.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

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

Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or something.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

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

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

Far too often, I read a script where the girls are the girlfriend or the set dressing.

Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is.

If I were a man, I'd be allowed to play roles that were compelling and drove an audience to an emotional response.

Most female characters have either been the temptress - like a Betty Boop type - or the victim - like an Olive Oil type.

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

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

Let's be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

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

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

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