Hilary Knight Quotes

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I just go: 'I'm a lot of things. Just because I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role.

I am not what a girl dreams of.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

I've always wanted to break the stereotype of being a model.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

There are certain images attached to an Indian woman - a mother, daughter, homemaker... there are certain parts of it that I really like, and I love having that identity also, but I feel women shouldn't be limited to that.

Normally, people think of Asian women as timid, but I think I'm very strong.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

Even though I'm just over 5'9'', heels make me feel feminine and fierce.

I'm not just muscles and headlocks. I need to prove to people that there is an elegant woman in here.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.

It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.

Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.