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

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

I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

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.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

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

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

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