Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

Most people think that girls can't play because they're girls.

No man wants to lose to a woman.

It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.

Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.