Angelina Jolie Quotes

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I like to play strong women.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong.

I like playing strong female parts.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

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

It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women.

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Strong female leads are important.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.