Hema Malini Quotes

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

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

For a woman, there is a complete dearth of roles to do. Abroad, you really have good roles, and by good roles, I don't mean the film has to be women oriented. I wouldn't mind playing a well-written, small role.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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

I always look for roles that make me feel good about being a girl. I have to say that there are a lot of roles out there that make me feel really bad about being a girl. You can imagine what the things are and I shall not go into detail.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.

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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls.

I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering - but they can't be ugly. I think there's so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won't sell.