Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

I suddenly became an unprofessional tantrum queen but people tend to forget that we associate these terms only with actresses. So many times, actors report late to the sets or don't even show up. But most women will tell you how we don't even have the luxury to be five minutes late.

Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.

A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

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.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.