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In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.