Quotes About Masculinity

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

Men are good but women are magic.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

I'm not emaciated; I'm wiry. Most women find lean men appealing.

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.

If I told you how many times guys on set get spray muscles... men need to realize that they don't need to live up to what they think they need to live up to!

Obviously, guys don't deal with the same level of criticism if they show off their bodies. Russian President Vladimir Putin literally staged a goofy shirtless photo shoot to show the people of Russia how 'handsome' and 'fit' he is. No one questioned his ability to lead a country as a result, although a lot of people did crack jokes about it.

We live in a world with men wanting to be brave. Not many will stand up and say, 'I don't feel right here.'

For me, I think there is no absolute standard on masculinity.

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

I like to grill, like a standard guy. I like to grill steaks and fish.

One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.