Robert Lepage Quotes

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.

I may have had the body and emotions of a woman, but I've always had the head of a man. I've lived my life like a man.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.

The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you’re anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal’s office: “So what’s this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?” You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

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

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.