Audrey Tautou Quotes

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

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

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

There's an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

When I first started doing press interviews, the big question was, 'Do you think women are funny?' People would ask you that in an interview. In an interview! It's like, of course they are.

A man can add to his sexuality by being funny, whereas a woman can diminish hers. I don't know why that's the case: it's completely unfair.

Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

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

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

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.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.