Chris O'Dowd Quotes

I always had more women working for me than men.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

I guess because there aren't many women working in the kind of variety of spaces that I've had the opportunity and privilege to kind of work in, that there is this extreme scrutiny about my career.

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

When I joined there was probably one woman in the CID office and one in the crime squad and just two of us on a team of about 40 or 50 people.

People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

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's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

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.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

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

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women who direct: it's a lack of opportunities and access for women to direct and be supported in that.

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run of a series.