Quotes About Identity

Every man is the hero of his own song.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

A man is known by the company he owns.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.