Joel Edgerton Quotes

I feel like I'm a tough guy.

That's something that I gotta prove - I don't like being labeled as 'soft.' I'm not soft.

I'm a man, I'm not just a fashion designer.

Growing up, we tend to challenge each other. We've got to be the toughest, the strongest, the bravest men that we can be. And for many of us, myself included, our identities are wrapped up in whether or not at the end of the day we feel like we're man enough.

I like to think of myself as a tough kid.

I have no memory of feeling strong and rugged at any point. I've been considering masculinity my whole life.

I guess I was a pretty tough kid.

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.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.

My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.

I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.

People see me as cute, but I'm so much more than that.