Quotes About Gender

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

I had a dream to become Glen Hoddle but never a female equivalent.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

Gov. Huckabee seems like somebody who could run effectively against a female candidate and not make it seem like he's being derogatory and impolite.

For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

I believe that I am male and I am female.

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

If you look at the charts, there's not a lot of male artists and for whatever reason, female artists sell a lot more records and get played a lot more on the radio.

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

It's interesting that female artists are underrepresented in exhibitions. That may be down to the fact that the people in power in the art world are men.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.