Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
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I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.
The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm...
There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.
My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.
And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.
There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint.
David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.
The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.
Man, I wish I was a better pickup guy. I've always been the guy in a relationship.
Early on, when I wrote 'Little Man Tate,' I got pigeonholed. Somebody said to me, 'You're not very dark,' and I had trouble getting certain kinds of jobs... and I learned very early that I didn't want to get pigeonholed...
The nicest thing that my friends who've known me for 15 or 20 years say to me is, 'Man, it's crazy that you're the same guy.' It's like, 'Which guy did you expect me to be?'
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working...
