Sandra Bullock Quotes

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

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

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.

The thing is to convince people that a part not written for a Latina woman - or maybe not even written for a woman at all - is a female part. You convince them you can do it.

People stereotype female rappers a whole lot.

This industry is quick to stereotype. People had started talking about how I was primarily being part of women-centric movies. I didn't want to be labelled as part of a mahila morcha.

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

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

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.