At a time when you do not know what chemicals are being fed into plants, there's no way you would know how toxic animals are. So, I'd stick to vegetarian fare.

To be successful in Bollywood, one needs a certain body type.

As parents, it's easy to not give the child enough credit and not spend enough time together.

As an actor, I belong to a strange slot, where you may have all sorts of roles in your kitty.

I was the first guy from a modelling background to successfully venture into films.

A film career is a natural progression for any model and i'm sure this trend will continue.

Everyone starts from a raw stage at some point of time.

I can't be the villain that I play in the movies.

It's fantastic to be associated with television.

If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together.

I was nominated as one of the most promising entrepreneurs by a business magazine a long time back. I worked in Telco way back in 1993 and then started my leather business.

In many households today, the woman is also a bread winner and with this financial independence comes the power of making choices.

One of the biggest lessons I've learnt is patience. It's critical when raising a child.

My state of being is just unique.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

I love the body I have.

The face of beauty literally needs to change, which means the way we think of beauty needs to as well.

The reason people wear the things that they wear and accept the standards that they accept is because most athletes make a good portion of their money in advertising and doing campaigns afterwards.

What it means to look like a woman or man changes regionally - from mannerisms to clothes to posture to makeup to even your vocals - so I just observe, and I replicate.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.

I find when I'm perceived as male in society, there is an enormous amount of pressure, but it comes with respect, so it's a balance.

I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles.

Use she, he, it, one, they. You could call me mow mow, and I honestly don't care. A pronoun is just a sound. All I'm listening for in that sound is positivity.

You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin.

My body is sometimes this thing I look at and think, 'What strange, alien thing grew around my consciousness?' It's like this weird fungus that's just there.

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

I will conquer Femmeness... And then, I will turn it on its head and redefine it for the world to see.

During my career path, I've experienced first-hand what people deem as beautiful. It's not me. It's not most people. It's limited and small.

I've been told I'd make a great parts model.

When I put on a dress, people have a lot of questions to ask, so I like putting on a dress just to get people to ask those questions and open up a dialogue.

We've established a world that's binary gendered, and I don't want to be disadvantaged at all. If being male is going to be more advantageous than being female, I'm all about it. I don't really think it's that important.

Victoria's Secret is a brand, not a socio-political movement. But at the same time, there is that one-dimensional look.

When I get dressed, I don't think about what other people think. I only think, 'Is this me? Is this my truth? Am I able to move through this world with confidence? Am I able to move through this world feeling that I am I?'

I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.

I hope, by never hiding, I can show there is never anything to be ashamed of when we are being our true selves.

Gender is a shackle.

You have to be satiated with just being authentically yourself at the end of the day.

When a brand says, 'Our product is great, and we think it'll be great for anyone that loves it, too,' that's the ultimate marketing message.

To be existing at all is beautiful simply because of how complicated and unexplainable being alive really is.

I'm not gender-fluid. I'm not gender-nonconforming. I'm not gender-free.

My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.

Fashion really does change the world. It changes how people feel about themselves. It changes what people are comfortable with sexuality-wise. It changes how people accept themselves.

I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism.

Victoria's Secret should highlight real women that actually purchase their clothing. I would love for them to start featuring more real bodies and diverse women. Victoria's Secret has the ability to tell people, 'It's okay,' when they wake up in the morning. They have the ability to change lives.

The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.

Illamasqua is a great brand with great people.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

Fortunately, unlike my teachers and classmates, my parents never forced gender roles or even a ended identity on me. I grew up on a farm, so all that mattered was working hard.

I think the fashion industry is limitless. Not everyone sees me as being part of their vision. But the people that have seen me, some of them have seen things in me that I hadn't even seen in myself.

I used to feel guilty about having nice things, because there was so much good I could be doing with that money. I always tell people that, if you can afford what I'm wearing, then you can afford to make a difference. But fashion has taught me that it's not a bad thing to love yourself and take care of yourself.