Trip Lee Quotes

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

I don't know enough about manliness to define it.

There is no harm in showing your feelings. It's not unmanly.

How can I be a man if there is no role model?

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

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

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

I like guys who, no matter what, are 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.

The more comfortable men are with dealing with their own vulnerability and their own ideas of masculinity and feeling emasculated, the healthier they are. It's a healthy thing to deal with.

In thinking about male identities, I'm struck by the inadequacy of the terms we use. The notion that men should be distant, domineering and self-seeking is often described as toxic masculinity, but this serves only to alienate those who might need most help.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

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

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

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

I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.