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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.

Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'

Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.