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James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.
So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.
I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.
I'm not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I'm the guy standing in a corner hiding. I'm not an alpha male.
From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.
Sometimes fans for male pop stars or actors can be a little crazy. I was that way with Jesse McCartney and N'Sync.
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
The 'Age of Adaline' was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.
We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.
In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.
Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.
Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn't matter as much as what lurks in your mind.
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Every actor, male or female, is paid what he or she is worth. There is no inflated sum or underpaying in the industry.
The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.
I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.
The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.
I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.
The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
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.
I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.
I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male.
When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.'
I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.
Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life.
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
Every male comedian of note who is over the age of 45 has a kid, and they talk about it and don't get grouped as 'dad comics.'
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.
I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.
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.
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.'
What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.