Judd Apatow Quotes

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

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

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.

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

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.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women.

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

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

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.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women have been funny for years.

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.

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.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

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.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.