Sean Lock Quotes

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

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

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

I like guys who, no matter what, are men.

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.

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

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

I like being able to be a man.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The young men felt that they were denied manhood

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.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

I'm not a bro.

If you're not the guy who is going to puff your chest out like a rooster and go fight somebody, our society discards you.

A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.