I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

I keep getting asked how I write about such smart, strong women, and my response is, what's the alternative? Weak, stupid women? They're just normal people, not role models - if you're aspiring to be like any of them, something's a little bit wrong. You may want to dress like one or have her job, but do not aspire to be her!

I definitely come from a line of strong women. It's not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.

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.

It's hard to keep moving forward, keep working, and keep your head up, but that's what strong women do. Especially being a mom, I can't fall apart.

I feel happy to play strong women because, as an audience member, I feel such characters inspire women when they are down.

Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

I like strong women. Strong women characters have always existed in the movies of directors such as K. Balachander and Mani Ratnam.

The women I see are very brave women, very strong women, women that are facing a lot of challenges and yet are up to the challenges and are making a very big effort. So I don't see why one of them cannot become a president - one day.

I have an appreciation for strong women.

We're proud of how we've stuck together, stood our ground, surrounded ourselves with strong women and are now using our voices more than ever.

I like strong women. Physical women.

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 just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.