Quotes About Masculinity

Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.

When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.

I feel myself in ways to be the product of internalized male gaze.

Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

An angry woman cannot respect a weak man.

The way I look at it, I'm more of a man because I'm in touch with my emotions. I think people that deny their emotions are pretty weak individuals, if you want my honest opinion.

When they saddle the leading man with violence it makes the characters look weak. If a man is a heroic type he doesn't have to resort to violence. How many successful men in the world have to settle problems with their fists?

Growing up I was always stronger than all the other kids. I wasn't allowed to play with the other girls because they were too weak. And I had to be careful with boys because I'd always be hitting them and I'd get into trouble for hurting them.

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.

In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.

I consciously learned and performed my race like a teacher's pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.

Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy.

I wear men's cologne - it gets the fellas!

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I don't understand why brothers can't understand the fact, or even just accept the fact, you can still be a man without having to commit crimes.

I have been called a stallion before, and it was always meant as a compliment.

I'm going for that Mark Wahlberg look. Strong and confident.

I think the sexiest thing about a man is that he's confident. Sure, sometimes you meet someone and you see his appearance first, but then you get to know him, and he looks completely different to you.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.

Surrounded by soy boys and pallid milquetoasts, left-wing women often secretly hanker for a Neanderthal macho man in their life.

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.