I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don’t normally see female characters portraying on screen.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence – a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that’s the case, then I guess I’m happy to hear it.
Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.
I love playing an old witch or a young boy. When I was younger, I would always volunteer to play the male lead.
I’m not one of those women who’s like pro women. I’m an individual, and I’m in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.
Having watched ‘X Factor’ over the years, they just haven’t got it right. The male winners haven’t been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.
I’m under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.
Being an actor, I’ve thought about being in the male gaze.
I’ve always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.
As a male designer, you always need a woman’s touch.
To be the most successful male from ‘The X Factor’ is a big achievement, and I’m chuffed with that.
In 2002, I was taking an improv class because, as a white male with glasses who was born between 1978 and 1994, it’s legally required that I take at least one improv class in my life.
I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that’s changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I’m writing about women, I think I’m writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
I’ve never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.
There are too many positive and goody male characters on TV, and they work, so its good for them. I feel each to their own. If it works for them, it’s fine. I don’t connect to such characters, so I won’t do them.
I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.
From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.
Pavarotti’s is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.
One of the things I really like about Ford’s films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
From her first superheroine role in ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’ – which earned $275 million globally in 2001, back when that was real money – Jolie has been the one actress who can stand up to any male star and stare him down.
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.
The word ‘excess’ has no meaning for a male.
When I walk down the street in a dress, people think I’m transgender. The issue isn’t that I’m embarrassed to be thought of as transgender: the issue is that people treat transgender individuals so violently, especially if they think it’s male to female.
There are times when it’s absolutely appropriate to march up to someone, stick out your hand and introduce yourself, and times when it’s best to let your male cameraman or producer do the talking and hang back until you’ve felt out the situation.
Hollywood studio executives don’t recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.
I think there’s always a way to bring something, even if it is just the girlfriend role, as long as you’re playing it with an idea of who that person is on their own, away from the male character.
I think as a young actress, it’s very rare that you read something where you’re not either ‘the girl’ or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.
You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
Even if you are divine, you don’t disdain male consorts.
What’s quote-unquote a ‘good’ lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you’re a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.
I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That’s how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.
You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can’t do that.
I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
Male? Female? It’s not always relevant to some people. They are who they are – they might not fit into a specific box.
The American male doesn’t mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
America’s demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census – but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America’s diverse mosaic.
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I’m trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
I’m just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see is how, in the same way good male directors get a shot at creating interesting male and female characters, women do as well.
I know what it feels like to be paid less – substantially less – than the male lawyer in the office next to me.
When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don’t like to be deflected by acrobatics.
There’s an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible.
Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women’s sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It’s going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.
I don’t think I’ve ever been called up for an action film with a male lead – which is a shame. I’d love to take on Bond.
