William E. Geist Quotes

I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?

Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors?

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

The Cure wrote 'Boys Don't Cry,' and it's the same today: as a boy, you're not meant to show your emotions, but if you don't have a job or any prospects, you're going to be depressed, and it will be much worse if you can't express that. I hate the term because it's become a buzzword, but it's toxic masculinity.

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

You know, men are very tough and they don't want to ever say that they need a break or that they are in pain.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

In today's society, a lot of males think you have to be strong all the time, and you're not allowed to show weakness. That's just so false.

I don't barbeque myself because that would involve me cooking. And whereas I can, I'm not a very good cook.

At the end of the day, I'm a man.

The Comedy of Emasculation that Judd Apatow and his disciples have made into a separate economy was invented by the Farrelly brothers, 'Kingpin' being the strongest version of that.

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

I kind of dated a woman-ish, but there's just something about a man that's just masculine, and just there's things that women don't have that men do.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

The minute you see a guy doing one of those Naomi Campbell catwalk-action kind of things, it falls apart. A lot of hips and the scissor walk? No! Men always need to be men.

I've got a lot of male energy.

Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.

Labor Day means grilling outside!

Don't mistake being an asshole for being a man.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.