Tough Guy Quotes - Page 2

• Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

  Gerard Butler

  Fun, Real, Adventure

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

  Vin Diesel

  Mom, Who I Am, Guy

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• Movies portray men as tough guys.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Men, Guy, Tough

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• I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Kindness, Guy, Demand

  "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do." And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.

  Mark Wahlberg

  People, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

  Tom Sizemore

  Men, Play, Guy

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• I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.

  Anson Mount

  Guy, Tough, Know How

  "Anson Mount Hell on Wheels Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 09, 2011.

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• I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Strong, Hurt

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

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• I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

  Scott Adkins

  Character, Guy, Tough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a weakness for tough guys who read." - Izzy Spellman

  Lisa Lutz

  Guy, Weakness, Tough

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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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• I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

  Tim Hudson

  Games, Guy, Pitching

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• This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

  George Papandreou

  Successful, Ideas, Guy

  "Greece gets first bailout cash" by Graeme Wearden, Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2010.

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• He reached out, opened the glove compartment, and took out a gun. It was a Smith & Wesson .38 five-shot special. It looked a lot like my gun. "I stopped by your apartment this morning and picked this up for you," Ranger said. "I found it in the cookie jar." "Tough guys always keep their gun in the cookie jar." "Name one." "Rockford." Ranger grinned. "I stand corrected.

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Gun, Names

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• I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head (Giles in Buffy), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It's much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it's not North London. I'm always afraid that I'm morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he's from.

  James Marsters

  Real, Nice, Years

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• I want to be real. I don't want to pose as anything. I don't want to pose as a tough guy. I don't want to pose as a nice guy.

  Trevor Bayne

  Real, Nice, Guy

  "A conversation with Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

  Channing Tatum

  Real, Guy, Actors

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• I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone's want list. I go after what I am offered, if I am so inclined. Now and then, I get offers for things that are not to my liking, in that I just don't care about the story. All this super tough guy stuff isn't anything that interests me all that much. I can't think of anything I turned down that I regret.

  Henry Rollins

  Regret, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.

  Scott Ian

  Thinking, Play, People

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• The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

  Jay Baruchel

  Dad, Fighting, Hockey

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Pain, Sleep

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• For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Guy, Tough

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• One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

  Jason Statham

  Guy, World, Tough

  "Jason Statham, ‘Safe’ Star, On If We’ll Ever See Him Star In A Romantic Comedy With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.

  Chad Pennington

  Sunday, Play, Guy

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• And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.

  Peter Kenyon

  Suicide, Hero, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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