Top 25 Ruby Rose Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whether straight, gay, bi, trans… body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.

I don’t think of myself as a model. I’m genderqueer, and I’ve got tattoos.

Acting is my life. It’s what I live and breathe.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest thing about having done ‘Orange’ are the doors that have opened for me, and people have been able to see me, like the executives and the casting directors – also, all of the fantastic directors and writers for independent films.

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.

My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free… just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life.

Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a ‘do I or don’t I?’; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.

Never say no to anything, whatever the universe brings me. I’ve always lived by that.

My mum used to wear the guys’ Chesty Bonds tanks, and I used to end up wearing them after she’d finish with them. She’s a painter, and they would be covered in paint splatters. She would wear them and wear them until they were super-soft, and then I’d get them. But I was just a kid, so they were like a dress on me.

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.’

I used to pray to God that I wouldn’t get breasts. Then in my teens, I tried to be quite feminine.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn’t exist without therapy.

I had never binge-watched TV before ‘Orange.’

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.’

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.

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.

I feel the most confident in whatever I’m feeling at that time. Sometimes it’s leather pants, a leather jacket, and a band tee, and it’s motorcycle-chic. Then there are times that it’s skinny jeans, a tank top, and a denim jacket. It’s whatever I’m feeling that day.