Jonathan Van Ness Quotes

Jonathan Van Ness

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : March 28, 1987

I'm always learning new things about myself.

Jonathan Van Ness

I love 'Downton Abbey.'

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Podcasts are hard! I mean, you gotta get the microphones and all these things... there's a lot going on there. I never really realized how much goes into producing things till I did 'Gay of Thrones.'

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My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.

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I am shocked almost on a daily basis that my being me everywhere I go affects people so deeply.

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I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.

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Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.

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I was really, really, really feminine and really into cheerleading and really into figure skating and really into gymnastics. Really into everything that other boys weren't.

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I wish I had more of a game plan of how I'm going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think that game plan is just going to reveal itself if we keep going. I think I need to keep plugging along, and it'll happen.

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I like people too much. I really do.

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People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too.

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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!

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I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.

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Even though I'm a hairdresser and I love doing hair, I feel like I don't look like a groomer. When I think of how a groomer would look in relation to the first version of 'Queer Eye,' I feel like I don't fit in that box.

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I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

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I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn't make light of it, I would literally keel over.

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Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.

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Typically, you're not gonna find me out at night; I don't go to industry parties. Like, I will go sometimes if I'm invited, but usually, I'm, like, home by 11.

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Probably the advice I could follow more is the self-love sort of advice. I think, four out of every five days, I'm good at that, but certain situations can trigger self-doubt or cloudiness around how I feel about myself.

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