Javier Bardem Quotes

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

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.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

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.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

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.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

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

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

I may have had the body and emotions of a woman, but I've always had the head of a man. I've lived my life like a man.

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

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

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 think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

I have a lot of characteristics that would normally be present in a guy and then less that would be present in a woman.

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