Robert Forster Quotes

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

U.K. guys think it is cheesy to be nice.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

A man must know how to act in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

One of the gross misconceptions about feminism is that it's only about women. But in order for women to live freely, men have to live freely, too. Feminism has shown us that what we think of as feminine is actually defined by cultural messages and political agendas. The same holds true for men and for what constitutes masculinity. Being a feminist opens your eyes to the ways men, like women, are imprisoned in cultural stereotypes.

The French are a feminine race, not manly like the Anglo-Saxons or Teutons.

In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

When someone like me, who is in the entertainment industry, which is a huge falsity of its own, tries to talk outwardly about politics, especially as a woman, I receive a lot of 'Shut up - just sing and dance for us, you idiot.'

There's a great deal of tension between so many kind of distinctive and restrictive female archetypes and images in the world. When you play with the archetypes, you get free.

The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.