Peter Capaldi Quotes

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

No boys liked Take That, and it was weird if you did because they danced around and wore matching clothes. But I didn't grow up with a dad who told me something was manly or not manly.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

When I was a young girl I had to deal with people calling me weird and strange because I spent so much time around boys playing football.

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

'I'll be back' always sounded a little girly to me.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

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

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.