- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fight
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
- Being Alone
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.
- Family
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.
- Hope
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to do 'Company of Heroes 2,' if they do it. It depends on how the movie performs, but they hope it will perform well. They have a franchise on their mind, and if it's a franchise, man, I'm going to be a very happy person.
- Courage
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.
- Look
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
- Important
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.
- Mother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
All you care about with your parents is that they are happy, and my mother is exceptionally happy at the moment, and I've always adored my stepfather, and he's always been a kind and good and lovely man.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of course, ate it. Lots of it. Life, for Josh, was meat, and writing. Everything else was a side.
- Egg
- |
- Nov 07, 2020