Ellie Kemper Quotes

Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short.

Ellie Kemper

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• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Clothes

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Work
  • Funny

• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Women
  • Charity
  • Refugee

• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Women
  • Performances
  • Athletes

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
  • God
  • Women
  • Fantasies

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

  

  Vera Wang
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Beach

• We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Live
  • Women
  • Professional

• The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Black
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Character
  • Challenge
  • Journey

• One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Life
  • Library

• Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Women
  • Funny