Masculine Vulnerability Quotes

The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

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.

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

We can appear to be tough as nails, but guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

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

The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.

One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it.

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.