Rachel Dratch Quotes

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

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.

When you're female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do - for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That's a skill I developed.

Music is a male-dominated field.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.