Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

I get the male thing. I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.