Character Quote by Elizabeth Meriwether

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

For years, humorous characters in cartoons have been almost exclusively male.

— Paul Dini

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

— Zooey Deschanel

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.

— Ashly Burch

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women.…

— Mindy Kaling

I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and…

— Todd Haynes

I just think women are funnier than men.

— Margaret Cho

It's a problem with a lot of female characters, that a lot of them are guy oriented or what they're expressing or emoting is…

— Jenna Ortega

Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters. Too often,…

— Michaela Coel

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed,…

— Ellen Pompeo