Top 40 Hari Nef Quotes

Fashion gave me my start, and that will always be my home. I’ll always be so grateful for all my collaborators and friends I’ve made there, but I’m so excited to dive head first into just being a working actor.

I’m a different girl almost every time I look in the mirror.

I don’t want to say that women who do use makeup or get breast implants or have fake nails are insecure. They’re entitled to that, and they should do that if that’s what they want to do. But for me, there are no answers. It’s just a matter of preference and choice and fetish.

It’s time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.

If my body can fall into the background for just a second, maybe people will start listening to what I have to say.

I get a facial maybe a couple of times a year.

If anyone says that American socialism isn’t possible, point them toward the bowling shoe.

My desire to be an actor or a model precedes my identity.

I think people get stuck in a cycle with social media sometimes and don’t know how to make adjustments that are personal.

Whatever surgery someone wants to get is none of your business.

I want to play Lady Macbeth. I have a big chip on my shoulder about Lady Macbeth. People usually play her as this cold, Greek witch, but there’s no evidence of that in the text! I think her intentions are pure.

When I don’t wear makeup, it’s not because I’m lazy, but it’s me making this radical bid for the feminization of my body and being confident in that.

I think the skin is the most important part of a strong makeup look, and if you take care of that, the rest will follow.

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn’t in person.

I travel a lot, so I don’t have a morning routine because where I wake up tends to be inconsistent. But I’m always really, really hungry when I wake up, so breakfast is important.

I think that it should be every woman‘s choice, depending on how she feels comfortable. I can’t think of any objective reason why you should wear makeup unless it makes you feel good.

There have been moments where I’ve had to question the way I’ve used social media and change it. Not because anything was wrong or right but because my needs had changed, and my perspective had changed.

If we didn’t desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy.

I keep a very cold apartment – I tend to crank my AC just about as low as it can go. I sleep with a big, warm comforter, even during the summer, and just burrow underneath it.

I like to let my skin breathe, I don’t like to stress it out. I don’t like to put it through very much.

Visibility is not, in itself, always a good thing, but when it is in the hands of those who need positive visibility, it can be.

I was never good at being a boy, but I was always a good student.

There are no trans roles, and if there are, they go to Jared Leto or Eddie Redmayne or Elle Fanning… Will there ever come a point where I could play a woman in a realistic, naturalistic drama and have there not be the word ‘trans’ in the script?

If you’re going to make a film about rage in 2018, 2017… If you’re going to make a film about revenge and anger, I feel like that has to be a film about women. I don’t really want to watch a film about angry men. I’ve seen way too many of those.

Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they’re options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people – not labels, not semantics.

I think it’s an oversimplification of somebody‘s worth to ‘cancel‘ them. We’re so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as ‘the queen,’ ‘the mom,’ ‘the dad,’ ‘the god.’

If I get too glam and polished and pretty, people are like, ‘Hari, why aren’t you speaking up about issues?’ And if I start speaking up about issues, people are like, ‘Why can’t you just be an actress?’

I’m very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.

I’m fun, ruthless, articulate, impatient, maybe a little cavalier. I’m a woman and a feminist. I’m transgender. I’m an actress, a reluctant writer, occasionally a potato-shaped model.

I live in a little studio apartment, so I try to keep the space super clean at all times.

Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.

If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn’t justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not.

When I saw that Laverne Cox was on the cover of ‘Time’ magazine, I totally lost it. It was a coup for the girls!

Fashion has always captivated me because, like I said, it has the potential to create narratives about what’s beautiful, aspirational, chic, masculine, feminine, glamorous, etc. Generally, this power is dispatched in useless ways.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

Whether you’re a woman, a transwoman, a person of color, I feel like Instagram is really important for the creation and framing of the self.

To see a trans body in this ideal space – on a cover, in an ad – these are spaces that have immense cultural power to dictate what is beautiful, what is glamorous, what is aspirational, what is sexy, what is clean. That can be very powerful and helpful in the de-stigmatization of trans bodies.

I couldn’t remember when I’d stopped willing to be trans and started wanting to be trans. If there were a difference, I’d forgotten it.

If you’re anything other than a white, cisgender, able-bodied dude, people are going to project narratives, imagery, and context onto you that you might not necessarily see for yourself.

My first boyfriend was a fashion designer. He was a junior in high school, I was a freshman.