Ang Lee Quotes

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

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

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

I'm not a bro.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

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.

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

There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.

In thinking about male identities, I'm struck by the inadequacy of the terms we use. The notion that men should be distant, domineering and self-seeking is often described as toxic masculinity, but this serves only to alienate those who might need most help.

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

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

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.