Males Quotes - Page 26

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

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?

Power is neither male or female.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

I've always had mostly gay male friends.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.

The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the male gang.

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world.

I'm pretty open. I'm not afraid of men. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of sex and sexuality. It's part of me, and it comes out in the photograph. It's as if at that moment when I'm taking pictures, I'm not a man and I'm not a woman. If I see a moment that seems true to me, that seems honest, whether it's female or male, it's part of me as well.

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'