Michael Trucco Quotes

There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

I'm a rah, rah guy's guy. I like to talk about sports and put people in headlocks.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit violence, from superheroes to crime dramas.

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

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

If there was no war, the young men felt that they were denied manhood.

Kick him in the balls!

[Referring to George W. Bush] Anybody who has to spend all his time demonstrating his manhood has somehow got to know he ain't got it.

The real problem is testosterone. In New York City stops and frisks became ceremonies of dominance.

Growing up, we tend to challenge each other. We've got to be the toughest, the strongest, the bravest men that we can be. And for many of us, myself included, our identities are wrapped up in whether or not at the end of the day we feel like we're man enough.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred style.

You can pick out the scariest dude on the tour and, guaranteed, he's probably a smush - I just find that so incredibly attractive.

This is a man's sport. I fight.

I'm an alpha male.

I feel like I'm a tough guy.

A fighter walks in the room and people are like 'oooo' because everyone is trying to be a tough guy.