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" As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy. "
Ruby Rose
Kid
Convinced
Guy
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" All I've wanted to be is someone people look up to. It's funny - everyone says I'm controversial. I've never worked out what it is about me that's controversial. I've never had a DUI; I've never been in a brawl; you've never seen photos of me walking out of clubs at 5 A.M. "
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" I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy.' "
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" I used to pray to God that I wouldn't get breasts. Then in my teens, I tried to be quite feminine. "
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" Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to. "
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Drawing
Art
" I had never binge-watched TV before 'Orange.' "
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Before
Orange
" The person I am every single day is the person that's growing and getting better. The more people look up to me, the more important it is to be concise with what message I want to leave. That's where I feel like I'm a role model. Maybe not to everyone, but for a lot of minorities, I am, and I kinda love that - the role model for the underdog. "
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" Between 'Orange' with Laverne, the show 'Transparent,' and Caitlyn Jenner, obviously we're in the middle of something enormous - a transgender movement. I'm just proud to be alive during this massive shift in the world. "
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World
Alive
Orange
" One thing I noticed when I moved to America, people don't really know about me, so a lot of them question why I look like a boy or dress like a boy, or why I didn't have longer hair, or what's with the tattoos. "
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Know
America
Hair
" I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy. "
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Love
Exist
" When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.' "
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Short
She
Push
" Whether straight, gay, bi, trans... body image and identity can be a struggle for us all. "
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Identity
Struggle
Body
" I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy. "
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Dress
Happy
Look
" I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos. "
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Tattoos
Think
Model
" When I booked 'Orange,' I thought things were going to change a little bit, and I'd be a little more busy, but obviously I underestimated it. I don't think anyone knew that my character would be taken to so well. "
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Character
Change
Busy
" I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I've already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I'm capable of, and acting is definitely that. "
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Doing
Live
Myself
" I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different. "
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School
Respect
People
" I started off as an Australian model. I had so many knockbacks, having short hair and being rejected, and I always thought: I'm never gonna get to where I want to get unless I start looking more feminine. "
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Start
Hair
Looking
" When I was younger, I didn't know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn't really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor. "
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Television
Door
Got
" I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids. "
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Fashion
Week
Radio
" I experimented with fashion as it being more like art, allowing what I wore to express what I was feeling on the inside. Androgyny, rock culture, and grunge - they definitely had an effect on the things that made me feel cool and comfortable. "
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Fashion
Culture
Art
" You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them. "
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Work Hard
Work
Want
" Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe. "
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Breathe
My Life
Acting
" I think at one point I had 50 or 60 tattoos, but then they all morphed to become a half sleeve and then a full sleeve and then a sleeve with half my hand and then half my back. So I have so many now where I feel like I can get away with saying, 'I have three tattoos.' "
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Back
Feel
I Can
" Aussies are really laid back, and so are Californians. "
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Back
Laid Back
Really
" I didn't know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy. "
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Know
You
Like
" My mom has really great skin; my dad has really good skin. I don't feel like I have to do a lot of work in regards to that. "
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Great
Feel
Good
" Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes. "
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Imagination
Gender
End
" I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It's rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it's so androgynous, it'll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I'm doing a red carpet or event, I'll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress. "
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Doing
Dress
Style
" When I was young and getting bullied at school and really not feeling like I would amount to much and staying isolated, my mom used to say to me a lot about how you treat people and always having dignity and respect. "
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People
Treat
Me
" Never say no to anything, whatever the universe brings me. I've always lived by that. "
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Never
Universe
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