Roma Downey Quotes

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

Being a woman, an actor in Hollywood, I know that there are certain parts I won't often get a chance to do.

I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

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

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

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

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.