Tucker Max Quotes

Men are always like, 'You're so intimidating.' I don't find myself to be. But whatever - I'm not going to try to be less intimidating. It's just a matter of finding a guy who's able to deal with it.

Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don't want to seem like the guy that 'has to call his girlfriend.' It's just boys growing up.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

It's never occurred to me - and I don't know what right mixture of upbringing this was - that my opinion wasn't as important as the alpha males or that I shouldn't try or that I wasn't the funniest one in the room.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough.

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

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.

We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.

I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.

I remember growing up and feeling all the time not pretty enough, too rude, too loud, taking too much space because precisely I wanted to maybe be bossy and loud and unapologetic and not really smooth all the time, and those were not really qualities that were valued for me.