John Turturro Quotes

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

Macho does not prove mucho.

Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

There comes a time in our careers that you get that one guy. That guy that just makes your blood boil. That really pulls the savage out of you.

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

The real victims of men are other men.

Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.

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

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

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

Abused patience turns to fury.

Here is your piece of ground, you son of a whore!

After one operator referred to the union as ‘a set of outlaws’, I wanted to take him by the seat of the breeches and nape of the neck and chuck him out the window.

You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.

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.