Paul Feig Quotes

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

I understand men much better than most women I know.

Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive type of guy. I try to put my female hat on and think how a female would think. If I'm watching 'The Notebook,' I'm definitely gonna cry. I cried during 'E.T.' too.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

I have two children who are daughters, so female issues have always registered high on my scale of awareness.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

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 males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.