Tom Brady Quotes

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

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.

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

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

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

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

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.

All women like to look up to their men.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

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.

Men are irrelevant.

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

Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

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.

I know it sounds like I'm playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they're not waiting at home. I wear the pants.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.