Carmen Carrera Quotes

Carmen Carrera

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : April 13, 1985

We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.

Carmen Carrera

It's important to have transgender representation because we represent the forthcoming generation, and their new perception on the standard of beauty - which I believe is being true to yourself, loving yourself and others.

Carmen Carrera

In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It's nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever.

Carmen Carrera

I don't want to reclaim the word 'tranny.' I don't want anyone to refer to me as 'tranny.'

Carmen Carrera

I would love to do more modeling. I would love to do anything really, mainstream, and help to create, I guess, a feeling of acceptance for people who are different and not look at them like they're freaks or whatever.

Carmen Carrera

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

Carmen Carrera

When it comes to beauty, I try to teach my step daughters to embrace themselves the way they are,and to have fun.

Carmen Carrera

The way I see things is that, I think that transgender people are super brave. If you're a female to male, male to female, if you're that brave to take control of your own body and make it however you want it to be, more power to you.

Carmen Carrera

I got kicked out of Catholic school, by the way, because I was too feminine. I was too feminine and I had a crush on this boy named Anthony and the nuns were not having it.

Carmen Carrera

I just want to say that I'm, like, living for myself, because I was onstage at Radio City Music Hall with Christina Aguilera - and my name was on the screen. It was a big moment!

Carmen Carrera

I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.

Carmen Carrera

I want to make 'People' magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.

Carmen Carrera

When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.

Carmen Carrera

Regardless of whether you're in a gay or heterosexual relationship, you're going to go through your ups and downs.

Carmen Carrera

I ended up going to public school in the first grade, and that's when I knew I had to be very strategic about my survival in school. I tried my best to be friends with people who were going to protect me.

Carmen Carrera

I'm not Laverne Cox. I'm not Janet Mock... I'm just a girl from New Jersey who has experience and lived.

Carmen Carrera

Being a woman means everything to me.

Carmen Carrera

I always try to think about what I can do to let people know that I'm just like everyone else. I have two girls here at home I'm trying to raise. I'm trying to be a good stepmom. I'm trying to stay fit and be a good model and break ground in the acting world. I'm working that same struggle every other woman is trying to work.

Carmen Carrera

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

Carmen Carrera

When you don't have a support system, and you're constantly being bullied for who you are, and you begin to not accept yourself for who you are, it's a distraction from schoolwork. It's a distraction from learning and from growing.

Carmen Carrera