Ezra Furman Quotes

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

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

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

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.

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

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

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

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

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.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

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

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

I like being able to be a man.

I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!

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

I'm not a bro.

I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the other. I think men and women alike would benefit from men having a more fluid idea of what being a man is.

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?

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. Thats not the definition of a man, God Dammit!