Aisling Bea Quotes

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.

We're not, like, hard men.

I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

I have confidence in my manhood to be able to cry at a movie or at a wedding, too.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

I'm not this tough guy, I'm not this super hard person.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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

It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.

I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.

I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman.

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.

Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.