Quotes About Identity

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.

One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.