Benjamin Bratt Quotes

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.

Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men.

How can I be a man if there is no role model?

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

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

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

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.

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

If you're not the guy who is going to puff your chest out like a rooster and go fight somebody, our society discards you.

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.

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

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

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?

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

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

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.