Quotes About Identity

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.

My favorite one to see is the metal bikini on men.

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.