Macho was a fashionable word in the 1980s. Everybody was kind of into it, what`s macho and what isn`t macho. I really don`t know what macho is. I never have understood. Does it mean somebody who swaggers around exuding testosterone? And kicks the gate open and runs sprints up and down the street? Or does handsprings or whatever? Or is macho a quiet thing based on your security. I remember shaking hands with Rocky Marciano. He was gentle, he didn`t squeeze your hand. And he had a high voice. But he could knock people around, it was a given. That`s macho. Muhammad Ali is the same. If you talked with him in his younger years, he spoke gently. He wasn`t kicking over chairs. I think some of the most macho people are the gentlest.
- Clint EastwoodIf I can associate with the people very, very gently very, very friendly every day I`m happpy. If I don`t pay them respect I feel terrible inside - From an interview with Chow Yun-Fat in the Documentary Chow Yun-Fat goes Hollywood
- Yun-Fat ChowHe could prod you gently or kick you in the ass,
- Michelle PhillipsYou have to treat people gently because we`re all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don`t know that until you get there.
- Amy GrantNot to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you`re just trying to get in and you`re given so little time to get in gently, but it`s always hard.
- William HurtYou offer things up, I suppose, and he probably gently maybe changes it a little bit one way or another, but you don`t feel directive as it were.
- Albert FinneyTrotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
- Georges SimenonI`m at my best when I`m working with really talented people, and I`m there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort. It`s not like I`m gonna tell Robert DeNiro how to act - but I could provide him with useful anecdotal material from my own life or other people I`ve known, or actual psychological information, or insights into his character. The technique`s up to him. But there are ways to gently urge an actor to pick up the pace or slow it down or focus more, to go bigger or smaller. Some actors are very open right at the beginning - they say, You only need four words with me: `Bigger, smaller, faster, slower.`"
- Harold RamisI just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
- Tony BlairThe best you can do is to donate. Donate your clothing, your gently used items, your housewares. We want to try and get as many as those kind of things in the hands of the people who lost all of this,
- Jerry DavisIt`s going tot take him a while to settle back into the rhythm and he will ease him in as gently as possible, but Andrew is experienced enough to know what it takes and he will hopefully be soon banging in those goals again.
- Gary WoodI have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
- Pope John XXIIITreat the other man`s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
- Abheek BaruaTouch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
- Al KershaHow gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven`s pale candles stored.
- Ali Hassan KhalilOur client is a compassionate, professional nurse who has devoted much of her life to kindly and gently counsel women during a difficult time in life. The ordinance violates her constitutional rights because it prohibits her from engaging in peaceful free speech as she has done for over 15 years on public property outside abortion clinics.
- Antonio AlonsoYou have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
- Avery NeumarkIf the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master`s presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord`s presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.
- Barbara FerraroWe just kind of pushed a little bit, gently working with people with the real aloha spirit, and we were lucky.
- Barbara KahnOld age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- ConfuciusThe wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
- Homer