"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"

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"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"

"I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor."

"But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people."

"The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes."

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"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."

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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

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