Hari Nef Quotes

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Hari Nef

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 21, 1992

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

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Brands like RMS Beauty and Kat Burki are my skincare heroes.

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

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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.

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I liked playing video games because I felt like I was inside of the story in a way that I didn't feel when I was just watching something. Any chance I could get to step into the shoes of another person, I would take. I couldn't get enough of stories.

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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.'

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

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I want to start the trans mafia one day.

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What we really need to look at is gender fluidity and the idea that gender can be customised however you want.

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I don't want the same trans story to be told over and over again. I don't want people to get stuck on this very western idea of what it means to be transgender.

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I'm a much better actor as a girl than I was as a guy.

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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.

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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.

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

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Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.

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When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever.

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Fashion gave me the platform that has made this transition from fashion to Hollywood, from East Coast to West Coast. Fashion gave me the platform that has made this easier than it is for a lot of other people. And I will always count fashion as the industry that was first to welcome me and embrace what I could do.

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

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What's infuriating is when cis people think celebrating me is celebrating transness.

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Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

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