Lauren Lapkus Quotes

We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.

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.

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

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

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

I think 'Bridesmaids' has changed things socially and culturally. Before, it was really difficult for women to do scatological humour without seeming gross.

My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.

It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there.

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Equality for women is progress for all.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Women have been funny for years.

A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.