Jonathan Van Ness Quotes

When you're willing to be vulnerable, you can surprise yourself at how strong you can be.

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• When I moved to L.A. in my early twenties, I was growing my hair. Then, when I was 25, I cut it off and was like, 'Oh no, I think I'm a long hair person until I go bald!'

  

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  • Growing
  • Hair

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

  

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  • People
  • Pretty

• I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.

  

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  • School
  • High

• As a kid growing up, I really hated being alone. I was always that kid that was like, 'Do you want to hang out? Let's go to the mall. Let's go to the movies. Let's go to the park.' I would call people and call people and call people. If I was alone when I wasn't at school, then there was something wrong.

  

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  • Up
  • School

• I'm really about body positivity and self-love, and I will definitely push the boundary with a pink midriff-baring top.

  

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  • Pink

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

  

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  • People
  • Daily

• I love changing hair color. I love doing hair shape. I love the social aspect of salons. I love clients, and because of doing hair, I've heard so many life stories.

  

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  • Life
  • Hair
  • Color

• If you're feeling a little down, you're never fully dressed without a strong heel. But only if you're depressed - if you need a pick-me-up.

  

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  • Strong
  • Feeling

• The second you're bleaching hair more than three or four levels on a consistent basis and want it long, and then you're heat styling it and living in the world - it's just impossible. You can get it there for a moment, and then you might get a couple re-touches out of it.

  

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  • World
  • Long
  • Hair

• I grew up in a town of 30,000 people, and 'Queer Eye' was a beacon of light.

  

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  • People
  • Up
  • Light

• For keeping hair long and healthy, I like to use silk pillowcases; they conduct less heat and keep your ends less frayed. Also, I sleep with my hair in a very loose top bun to keep my ends away from my body heat. This also keeps your hair from getting tangled at the nape of your neck.

  

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  • Long
  • Sleep
  • Hair

• Since I have psoriasis, I buy anything that feels good against my skin. I tend to wear really, really soft hoodies by the brand Velvet. Even if I don't have a flare-up, I'm still like: Oh. My. God. This nice thing feels so good.

  

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  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.

  

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  • Life
  • Joy

• Gorgeous exfoliants are expensive.

  

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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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  • Hair

• Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.

  

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  • People
  • Reading
  • Value

• I had to fight, a lot of years, to be really proud of the person I see in the mirror and really love this person.

  

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  • Proud
  • Mirror

• Think about how your jeans would look if you washed and dried them every single day. That's like our hair, and you can't change your hair as often as your pants, so cutting down on washing cuts down on long-term damage.

  

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  • Long
  • Single
  • Hair

• I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys.

  

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  • Football

• To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.

  

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  • Forgiveness

• I used to be pretty hard on myself, like, if I didn't like a haircut I did on someone, I would think about it a lot and second-guess myself. But after therapy and a lot of work, I know how to dust myself off a lot faster, and those things don't knock me down as much as they used to.

  

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  • Work
  • Pretty

• Whenever anyone says I've taught them things by me being myself, I'm always like, 'Really? I just thought that was like, Wednesday for me. I was just wearing a kilt and a sleeveless top in a Rotary Club, it wasn't that big of a deal.'

  

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  • Wednesday

• I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect you. So to be a better ally, you have to look at it as if it's someone you know instead of this abstract person you've never met.

  

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  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're willing to be vulnerable, you can surprise yourself at how strong you can be.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Strong