Macho Quotes - Page 2

• Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That's a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you.

  Jimmy Page

  Girl, Clothes, Ice

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• 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.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Believe, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.

  Edwina Currie

  Running, Attitude, Thinking

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• Boxing is a sport that is largely dominated by machos, by men who think we have to conform to a very specific role model. The ideal boxer doesn't think too much, is raw and brimming with strength. I am also fascinated by strength, but for me style is a part of that.

  Orlando Cruz

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  People, Guy, Want

  "Sam Rises to the Occasion as Lazarus". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Your mom is a rainbow goddess?" "You got a problem with that?" "No, no. Rainbows. Very macho.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Rainbow, Problem

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• Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

  Pete Townshend

  Gay, Men, Rivers

  Pete Townshend (2012). “Pete Townshend: Who I Am”, HarperCollins UK

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• What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don't care and like machos - because they are too fragile inside. They're scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things.

  Salma Hayek

  Men, Worry, Heartless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Arjun Rampal

  Nails, Normal, Paint

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• You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.

  Richard Pryor

  Sex, Men, Scary

  "The time of his life" by William Cook, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2004.

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• The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.

  Timothy Leary

  Stars, Pride, Personality

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Evolutionary Agents”, p.41, Ronin Publishing

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• This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like, a - like, a very macho dude.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Years, Play

  "Not My Job: Mindy Kaling Gets Quizzed On Do-It-Yourself Projects". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 20, 2015.

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• We're working to overcome the overly macho nature of the current online console game world, where a handful of the high testosterone crowd fight for supremacy, while the mass of casual game players stay away.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Fighting, Player, Games

  Speech at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, 2005.

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• The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.

  Clint Eastwood

  Fun, Gay, Doors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.

  Hulk Hogan

  Adventure, Character, Kids

  "Q&A with Hulk Hogan: Say What You Will, He Fills Out a Tutu". Interview with Marshall Fine, October 07, 1993.

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• The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

  Michael Caine

  Three, Actors, Natural

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• I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

  Lori Foster

  Athlete, Gay, Men

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• no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

  Molly Ivins

  Horse, Texas, Progress

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.198, Vintage

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• I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.

  Bobby Bowden

  Hurt, Character, Vocabulary

  Bobby Bowden, Bill Smith (1994). “More than just a game”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It was the wife, John thought. And she was giving this tough guy a tongue-lashing. And the man was taking it. "Okay. I love you. Bye." Tohrment flipped the phone closed and put it in his pocket. When he focused on John again, he clearly respected his wife enough not to roll his eyes and make some macho, shithead comment about pesky women.

  J.R. Ward

  Love You, Eye, Men

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1028, Penguin

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• 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.

  Carlos Santana

  Beautiful, Dad, Men

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• I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

  Will Ferrell

  Guy, Looks, Idiot

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• It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake - fairly or unfairly - get me off to a bad start with a person.

  George H. W. Bush

  Crush, Eye, Trying

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

  Carrie Vaughn

  World, Cold, Problem

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• I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.

  John Travolta

  Men, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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