“This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.” IfsIdeasStatesGuySuccessfulTaxesToughDeceivingTough Guy Author:George Papandreou
“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.” IfsKindHelpingGuyAsksKindnessDemandToughDefeatSnapsAdmissionTough Guy Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.” MenPlayGuyFrontsToughPressesTough Guy Author:Tom Sizemore
“I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.” KnowsGuyKnow HowToughPretensionTough Guy Author:Anson Mount
“After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.” PeopleYearsTwoGuyPrayingToughPrisonTwo YearsTrust MeLet DownTough Guy Author:Ja Rule
“Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes.” HeartDoePlayGuyFightingGamesSportsTrainingToughBoxersKarateJudoTough GuyTough Games Author:Rickson Gracie
“I never came with a conscious plan to replace anyone else. Stallone does feel that way. He is a real tough guy in real life, and he gets to act that out. If you meet him and work with him, he is what he is. He is a guy that works out every day.” IfsWayFeelsDoeRealGuyPlansConsciousToughWork OutReal LifeTough Guy Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?” ThinkingWantedGuyBreakHellToughStrikesMusclesEmployersTough Guy Author:Jimmy Hoffa
“I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.” GuyFightingWalksToughFighterTough Guy Author:Channing Tatum
“It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.” KindImportantSelfGuyEasyNiceGoes OnToughListsAssBeing NiceBad AssSelf AbsorbedTough Guy Author:Dwayne Johnson
“"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.” GuyToughUnexpectedConferencesAstonishingTough Guy Author:Richard Holbrooke
“When fighting zombies, the only comfort one can have--if, indeed, it can be called a "comfort"--is knowing where the zombies are. "They are over there, and we are over here. When they come at us, we're going to shoot them down. That's how it's going to work. They're just zombies, and they're way over there. No way are we going to f*** this up." But when zombies then unexpectedly pop up behind you--Bam!--the whole battle plan's not so cut and dried, is it, Mr. Tough Guy?” IfsWayWholeGuyFightingBehindsKnowingCuttingPlansComfortBattleToughPopsGoing To WorkZombieBehind YouTough Guy Author:Scott Kenemore
“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.” RealPlayAbleActionGuyFunRolesAdventureAchievementToughMasculinityTestosteroneTough Guy Author:Gerard Butler
“One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.” WorldGuyToughEpitomeTough GuyCoutureRandy Author:Jason Statham
“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.” CharacterGuyBitsTypeToughEdgesTough Guy Author:Scott Adkins
“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.” KnowsRealEndsGuyWinningStrongSportsHurtStreetsSmartBeatsToughWeakCleanRingsBoxingThe End Of The DayStrong WillBodyguardReal PowerTough Guy Author:Mike Tyson
“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.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingDifferentGuyForceRolesHappeningsToughBoxesHeyGenreNavigateTough GuyDifferent Genres Author:Mark Wahlberg
“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.” PeopleThinkingMindTodayAbleAmericaRomanceGuyIndividualRaceTypeHeroTomorrowBlessingPureDemandToughTrackYesterdayEnjoyedThoughtfulPrimitiveUniformsInvincibleDoubtfulAccommodateTough GuyUnderprivileged Author:Ellen Glasgow
“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.” KnowsMenWorldWantFeelsWarEnoughGuySufferingFatherWaitingBoysKnow HowSeeingToughRainTreatsCourtLifetimeHungerDivorceForestsCorporateGood EnoughRitualScareFeel BetterFatherhoodBe A ManPubertyStartersTough GuyRaiders Author:Frank Pittman