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Female Character Quotes
On writing and playing complex women.
This page collects quotes from actors and writers on crafting strong female characters, including the extra proving-ground many feel their characters face compared to male leads. See also our Action quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she's not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It's all about the story, the character, and the course of events in that piece of work and how that character is presented.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think we get to see that enough in television.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on comics in the 1960s era, when 'Wonder Woman' was rather silly. She was an interchangeable female character plagued by bad stereotypes. She cried at the drop of a hat, she was worried about how she looked, all of that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say, if a guy writes the same lead female character type over and over, we are not seeing their writing chops so much as their dating website wishlist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
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- Nov 07, 2020