Lori Petty Quotes

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

It's been a teenage fantasy of mine to play Bodhi.

I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.

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 think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

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.

Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.

My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

I don't think there has been a huge shift. Most of the films still focus on Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, etc. The percentage of films that have someone like a Kangana Ranaut shining in it is really low.

'Bengal Tiger' is huge film for me, and I had a blast working with both Ravi Teja and Tamannaah.

You just sort of get used to being one of the only women on set, so it's really refreshing to start to enter a time when that's not the case anymore.

'Boss' is a big scale entertainer... It is my first film of this kind.

Most of the time actresses are just left to play the actor's wife or girlfriend so there is not much to do. 'Chalo Dilli' was a refreshing change which was different and that's why I decided to work in it.

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.

I like to watch surfers and skaters that are really fast and really powerful and everything flows.

What's important is to have more women creators behind the scenes, being producers and being in charge. That will ultimately help push this boys'-club, locker-room mentality out the door.

Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.