Skip to content

This film helped to open the door, and anger management groups, women's groups were inundated with callers saying I've got a warriors problem.

— Rena Owen Rena Owen recalls heavy moments on set of Once Were Warriors (2025)

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by Rena Owen

Once Were Warriors went into the intimate places of sexual abuse and you saw up close and personal what domestic violence looked like.

Absolute privilege' to play Once Were Warriors' Beth Heke, says Rena Owen (2019)

I don't think I'm being unjust saying this, but Beth will be one of the best roles of my life because female dramatic leads are so rare. I'm very blessed to have had the opportunity.

Once Were Warriors presskit (1994)

Beth is definitely one of the best characters I've played in my fourteen years as an actress ... It was great to re-create her and see everyone again.

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? presskit (1999)

Everything personally, and professionally, shaped me for that role ... But I couldn't have done it had I not had all those years in theatre. That's what gave me the strength to do it.

Absolute privilege' to play Once Were Warriors' Beth Heke, says Rena Owen (2019)

I literally had a woman come up to my table and burst into tears and go, 'Your performance helped me to walk away from a violent relationship.'

Rena Owen recalls heavy moments on set of Once Were Warriors (2025)

All Rena Owen quotes →

You may also like

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Rena Owen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.