Justin Baldoni Quotes

I challenge you [other men] to see if you can use the same qualities that you feel make you a man to go deeper into yourself. Your strength, your bravery, your toughness: Can we redefine what those mean and use them to explore our hearts? Are you brave enough to be vulnerable? To reach out to another man when you need help? To dive headfirst into your shame? Are you strong enough to be sensitive, to cry whether you are hurting or you're happy, even if it makes you look weak? Are you confident enough to listen to the women in your life? To hear their ideas and their solutions? To hold their anguish and actually believe them, even if what they're saying is against you? And will you be man enough to stand up to other men when you hear "locker room talk," when you hear stories of sexual harassment? When you hear your boys talking about grabbing ass or getting her drunk, will you actually stand up and do something so that one day we don't have to live in a world where a woman has to risk everything and come forward to say the words "me too?"

If it's about work or sports or politics or women, we have no problem sharing our opinions, but if it's about our insecurities or our struggles, our fear of failure, then it's almost like we become paralyzed.

We put up these facades, of maybe strength of who we are, but inside there's this incredibly broken person.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

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.

Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.

I've been pretending to be normal for so much of my life.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Most people try to isolate themselves and pretend like things are all good when a lot of times, that's not how it is.

It's boring to be a poser.

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

Even in my age now, I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.