Quotes About Masculinity

Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.

I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.

I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that.

If a straight man dresses well, chances are he's not straight.

To a straight man, the notion of walking around as a coiffed, waxed, nail-polish-wearing, lispy dude is uproariously absurd. As people, we find absurdities funny. That's our first step in making sense of them.

You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

I think, almost, the film industry thinks that by making gay characters super masculine, it's an attempt at saying being gay is OK if you act like straight people. I don't think we should just have gay characters who are 100 percent femme, either. I just think it's about that mix and creating more diverse gay characters.

Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.

Boner or No Boner? "Men, if you wake up and you don't have a boner, there's a problem. Yes or no? One or zero? Boner, no boner?

She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men.

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

I'm a bit old school with my aftershave - I still wear Joop.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.

I've always been a bit old-fashioned and thought the best way to sort things out was man to man.

Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.