Males Quotations

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.

Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.

We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males,

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

What does America love more than one white male?

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldnt be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they were actually doing anything wrong. We know with certainty that the U.S. Government has detained and publicly branded as 'terrorists' people they knew at the time were innocent.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular.

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.