Quotes About Pejic

#1. Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic's unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining desire to be desired looks more like a glamorous prophet, preparing the way for the Metrosexy 21st Century.

Mark Simpson

#2. I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Andrej Pejic

#3. One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

Charlton Heston

#4. In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

Andrej Pejic

#5. The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

Mignon McLaughlin

#6. Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

Andrej Pejic

#7. I don't get out of bed for less than $50 a day. I want to make that clear to America. This is a new age of androgynous supermodels. We don't get out of bed for less than $50 a day.

Andrej Pejic

#8. It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

Andrej Pejic

#9. To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right,

Andrej Pejic

#10. When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

Andrej Pejic

#11. In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

Constance Rourke

#12. I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

Andrej Pejic

#13. I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

Andrej Pejic

#14. Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

Andrej Pejic

#15. I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

Andrej Pejic

#16. I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

Andrej Pejic

#17. I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

Andrej Pejic

#18. How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

Andrej Pejic

#20. My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

Andrej Pejic

#21. Love has no boundaries.

Andrej Pejic

#22. I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

Andrej Pejic

#23. Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

Andrej Pejic

#24. I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

Andrej Pejic

#25. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

Andrej Pejic

#26. As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

Andrej Pejic

#27. The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the foregoing, is a direct consequence of the premises, which you have stated.

Christopher Hitchens