Jeff Baena Quotes

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

A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.

I'm pretty feminine.

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

I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.

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

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

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.

In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

I'm not really one to go out in public in dresses too often. I definitely mix it up between masculine and feminine all the time, but wearing a dress goes a little bit too far.

I think we all evolve as we get older, and that's normal, but I like to think that my recent transition hasn't made me into a different individual. Same person - no difference at all, just a different sex.