Hari Nef

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

Ariel is the most boring Disney princess. ”

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

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 much better actor as a girl than I was as a guy. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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? ”

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body. ”

I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me. ”