I'm competitive but I'm not butch.Charley BoormanTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I'm competitive but I'm not butch.
“If you look back as far as the first explorers, they all took with them the latest gadget.”Charley BoormanExplorer
“I had a wife and children. I was mostly working in painting and decorating and then taking the occasional acting job as they came along. At that stage in your life you have to think about your priorities. It looked like I was going to have to take the building more seriously and give up acting.”
“I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a fresher, sexier, more feminine look.”Marie HelvinButch
“Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' have gone a long way to popularise both pirates and outlaw behaviour, the truth of the matter is that piracy is illegal, and it kills.”Peter MiddlebrookButch
“In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.”
“In places such as Kazakhstan and Mongolia people depend on each other a lot more. We can often be quite detached in the West, with e-mail and telephones, whereas in those countries people rely on each other more. It's lovely because you feel like, although you're a stranger, they respect you as a friend and want to help you.”Charley BoormanDepend
“My performances in auditions were so inept that I hardly got any jobs in film or TV. I just could not learn the lines and the thought of doing theatre terrified me. What if I forgot my lines in the middle of a scene with an entire audience watching?”Charley BoormanAudience
“Unlike London or other big cities, there's a great tolerance for motorbikes in Ireland. Culturally, it's quite different.”Charley BoormanBig Cities
“I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and uncomfortable in that world - maybe I'm just more butch than I realize! I have, however, been fortunate to have a number of great girlfriends. You don't meet as many girls as you do guys in my line of work, so I do cherish my friendships.”Elizabeth ReaserButch
“I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was just kind of one way to be gay, right? You saw very effeminate guys. You saw very butch women. And there was no kind of in-between. And there was no - you know, there wasn't anything in the media. There wasn't anything on television.”Jacqueline WoodsonButch