Quotes About Masculinity

I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.

We're all insecure, aren't we? I'm not walking around like I'm macho man or anything.

A fighter walks in the room and people are like 'oooo' because everyone is trying to be a tough guy.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.

First, it was a big deal for girls to dress more like guys. Then it was a big deal for straight men to be metereosexuals and care about their appearance in the way that a gay man would. Now we have to take it a step further - men should be able to not wear men's clothes if they don't want to.

No guy - and I mean no guy - should wear a bikini bottom.

You pay your bills and you take care of your family, or you're not a man.

Male bonding is the idea of having the confidence to say, 'I'm going to take you down.'

I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.

I don't want to be a pretty boy.

I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame.

I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.

I look like a dude and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny.

A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!