Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

Ariel is the most boring Disney princess.

— Hari Nef

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

— Hari Nef

I identify with Sad Girls.

— Hari Nef

Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

I was really into emo and scene culture in middle school.

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

Sometimes it feels like people can't wrap their head around the notion that an 'androgynous' trans woman with shorter hair could be…

— Hari Nef

I feel like my transition, in a broader sense, began the second I left home and came to New York. Because all…

— Hari Nef

I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body…

— Hari Nef

I'm not so fascinated by these ingenue roles. I tend to gravitate towards women in plays or shows or films that are…

— Hari Nef

In an ideal world, I wouldn't have to change my body. I wouldn't have to do all this stuff. I wouldn't have…

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

If I get too glam and polished and pretty, people are like, 'Hari, why aren't you speaking up about issues?' And if…

— Hari Nef

I feel like the most fascinating parts of a trans life take place after the decision to transition. They take place when…

— Hari Nef

I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or…

— Hari Nef

If you're going to make a film about rage in 2018, 2017... If you're going to make a film about revenge and…

— Hari Nef

I think that you need to balance a critique of feminine, patriarchal beauty ideals while simultaneously understanding how they can make you…

— Hari Nef

There's something very noble about the bowling shoe. It has very little pretense, and it's kind of naughty. You have to share…

— Hari Nef

Fashion gave me my start, and that will always be my home. I'll always be so grateful for all my collaborators and…

— Hari Nef

I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make…

— Hari Nef

If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn't justify…

— Hari Nef

I got the Fire Stick as a gift at the Amazon Emmys after-party in 2015, and because I haven't lived in a…

— Hari Nef

I would like to produce, and eventually, I would like to direct.

— Hari Nef

I would say I'm waiting for, I guess, designers to open up their vision.

— Hari Nef

I search my name on Tumblr more than I Google myself, and I Google myself every day.

— Hari Nef

Trans folks are going to rise up for their moments and their money!

— Hari Nef

I identify with anyone who logged online in elementary school and never logged off.

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.

— Hari Nef

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

— Hari Nef