“Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.”

American actress and director

Bryce Dallas Howard is an American actress and director. Born into a filmmaking family, she studied acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and emerged in the early 2000s. She has 104 quotes on the site. Howard gained wider attention after playing Rosalind in a 2003 production of As You Like It. That performance brought her to the notice of M. Night Shyamalan, who cast her in The Village as a blind woman and later in Lady in the Water as a naiad.