Anna Faris Quotes

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

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

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.

I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

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

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

What's important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I'm a great leader. All those things matter independent of gender. But I do think there's a responsibility for me to support other women at Google.

If we think that our daughters ought to be in Congress next to our sons, we'd better let our sons know that now, so that they get prepared to have women as colleagues.

I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.