Beautiful Quote by Bea Arthur

I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while…

— Isla Fisher

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You…

— Lily Tomlin

Often it's seen as empowering if you're cleverer than the men, or more aware - then you're giving the woman a great strong role.…

— Natasia Demetriou

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that…

— Audrey Tautou

Comedy has so much to do with honesty, and women can be more open about their emotions.

— Ali Wong

I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!

— Nicole Byer

It's not that women aren't funny or that they're not interesting company , it's just that you can sometimes have too much of a…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

— Ali Wong

I've always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all.

— Ari Graynor

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or…

— Sharon Horgan

I think that all those women that I look up to so much just ground their comedy in realism and don't try to make…

— Molly Gordon