Maya Rudolph Quotes

I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

The venture community is largely male.

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.

I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

The problem isn't that there's not enough women in panel games. The problem is there's not enough women in comedy in general.

There aren't as many women in my industry in comedy as there should and could and hopefully will be, but it is interesting growing up watching a woman in a male-dominated industry and kind of, like, plowing ahead.

Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.