Quotes About Stereotypes

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

I've worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn't be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.