Male Characters Quotes

#1. All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.

Mike Judge

#2. I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

Geena Davis

#3. I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

Peter Straub

#5. Tonight, I want to curl up with a good book and visit my fictional boyfriends. Now let me tell you, my list is long. I am the equivalent to Hugh Hefner, but instead of bunnies I have this ever-growing list of male characters that have stolen my heart. I

Kat T. Masen

#6. In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing.

Haifaa Al-Mansour

#7. I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

Illeana Douglas

#8. As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies are uncovered and made more vulnerable. Thus, as women gain power, they are disempowered in another way.

Nick Yee

#9. I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#10. Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

Romola Garai

#11. When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

Ari Graynor

#12. Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.

Geena Davis

#13. It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.

Megan Griffiths

#14. I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

Geena Davis

#15. I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#16. Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters - no small inspiration to take from a series whose beautifully androgynous male characters often appear to be some kind of heterosexual stress test.

Tom Bissell

#17. Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

Sandra Brown

#18. There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. There is only the resentments and desires of women. A man should not attempt to recognize himself in my male characters. On the other hand, he can find [in the films] a better understanding of women. And knowledge of the other is the highest goal.

Catherine Breillat

#19. I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.

Danae Elon

#20. It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

Mindy Kaling

#21. I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

J.J. Abrams

#22. I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

Catherine Hardwicke

#23. There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

Ellen Pompeo

#24. The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#25. I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

John Allison

#26. Yes, I've killed! I've killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.

N.B. Roberts

#27. The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and alienate certain audiences, it would limit who has access to the film, and that's something I think a lot about with this story.

Travis Mathews

#28. Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Rose Tremain

#29. I don't check any particular box. I've never caught feelings for anyone because they were a male or a female. I feel for people because of who they are. Not what they are.

Tammy Ferebee

#30. I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

Marisha Pessl

#31. There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

Colin Trevorrow

#32. The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

Geena Davis

#33. I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

Rhianna Pratchett

#34. I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

Jenji Kohan

#35. I need you to tell me you're mine, to swear that you are mine, because, damn you, I need to be yours!

Karen-Anne Stewart

#36. Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

Iain Banks

#37. But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.

James D. Horton

#38. Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

Meg Cabot

#39. When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

Amber Heard

#40. One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

Ken Burns

#41. I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

Christopher Stocking

#42. Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic.

Callan McAuliffe

#43. There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#44. James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

Tracy Pollan

#45. I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

Katee Sackhoff

#46. Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

Kate Braverman

#47. A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

Izabella Scorupco