Top 158 Heroines Quotes & Sayings

You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.

None of the Bollywood heroines have butts like Salma Hayek and J Lo.

We don't have Latina heroines in theaters; I haven't seen Marvel doing it.

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

I have a connection with Bengali heroines. I have worked with Tanushree Dutta and Bipasha Basu.

The heroines for our established heroes are getting younger and younger. So the heroines, who started their careers with these established heroes, are quickly promoted to senior roles.

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?

Many of the heroines from outside Karnataka have worked in my films, but the attitude and adjusting nature of top South Indian actress Nayantara is outstanding.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

I want to do films where the heroines get to perform.

My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.

When actors do anti-hero roles, they are critically acclaimed. When heroines do negative roles, they are sidelined from the industry.

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.

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

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.

Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.

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

Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

We heroines don't get good roles.

Ravi Babu's films are known to have its heroines playing prominent roles. Further, all the heroines he has cast in his films are well-established, known faces. I consider myself lucky to have been considered by him to play Mohini.

I am not like other heroines who throw tantrums or make a fuss about the kissing or bikini act.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I think heroines would be pretty boring if they were perfect all the time.

I can't expect to be playing the lead and romancing heroines, so I'll do what I'm best suited for and I'm doing that happily.

Item song dancers like Silk Smitha and Jayamalini have become irrelevant. The heroines are doing those dances themselves.

Romantic heroes and heroines are a bit different from the sort of people we run into every day.

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

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

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

Lisbeth Salander is one of the most compelling heroines of 21st century crime literature, and I am thrilled to see readers have welcomed her return.

I'm not insecure. Give me a good role, and I'll perform even for a multi-starrer with half a dozen other heroines!

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

I have a Punjabi film 'Nikha Zaildar 2,' directed by Simerjeet Singh. It is a 1970s drama set in old Punjab. There are two heroines. I play Sawan a teacher.

Some people say heroines just have to look good and provide the glamour. Some say, from dance-n-song routines, heroines have come a long way. Today, the heroine's name adds weight to the film, though maybe they can't carry the whole film on their names. I believe, yes, we do contribute a lot to films.

You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.

Heroes and heroines don't commit adultery.

There are no heroes and heroines in 'Naan.' All of us play different characters, and have equally important roles.

I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something.

Maybe actors are more passionate about cinema than actresses. Many heroines today seem unable to look beyond glamour.

I was never interested in roles where I would have to dance and romance heroines.

I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession.

I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.

They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.

Some heroines look very glamorous in bikini.

Nowadays heroines are doing everything from acting to item songs. They are jumping into the territory of item girls.

A lot of heroines ask me to make the dance steps easier.

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.