Donald Glover Quotes

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.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

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.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

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

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

The real victims of men are other men.

Most men are fragile.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

If I told you how many times guys on set get spray muscles... men need to realize that they don't need to live up to what they think they need to live up to!

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

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