Garry Shandling Quotes

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Men need to be with women otherwise I don't think they really know how to behave. They'll just stare at me and it's awkward, so I scramble around in my mind to say the rudest things I can think of just to get something out of them.

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something -- and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

Men are easier to get on with than women. They tend not to make emotional demands on you.

I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.

This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremendous frustration. Did you ever notice that while men often refer to their wives as best friends, women usually refer to another woman in that way?

I feel like all guys are the same.

Reality shows help us create a balance between our real and reel side.

Men and women are different, and they can never read each other's mind.

I think anyone who has a boy would tell you that they do the sort of things that make you look at them and ask why they would do that. 'Oh right, because you're a boy.'

Well, in the general population, we find differences between the typical male and typical female. For example, males seem to be more interested in systems and females seem to be more interested in people and particularly people's emotions.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

It took me a really long time to get past all of that internalized dissociation with being female that I was being given by media.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.