Michaela Watkins Quotes

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

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.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

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

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that a woman can't be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

There's an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.