Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Van Ness
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entertainer Jonathan Van Ness.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
How you take care of yourself is how the world sees you.
When you're willing to be vulnerable, you can surprise yourself at how strong you can be.
From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something.
I wish I had more of a game plan of how I'm going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think that game plan is just going to reveal itself if we keep going. I think I need to keep plugging along, and it'll happen.
If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don't want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?
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.
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.
I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.
I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.
I think that the ideal of men's physiques in general, gay or straight, is one of the most under-talked-about things ever. Ninety-five percent of these bodies that we're seeing, that we're striving so hard to look like, are genetically engineered - like, let's be very clear.
Podcasts are hard! I mean, you gotta get the microphones and all these things... there's a lot going on there. I never really realized how much goes into producing things till I did 'Gay of Thrones.'
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.
Aly Raisman doesn't have a podcast - but she should!
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.
My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.
I was really, really, really feminine and really into cheerleading and really into figure skating and really into gymnastics. Really into everything that other boys weren't.
I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys.
If you have body hair, I'm like, 'Have your body hair. Have it sticking up the top of your shirt.' I'm really about body positivity and self-love.
One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women.
I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.
I'm really about body positivity and self-love, and I will definitely push the boundary with a pink midriff-baring top.
Gorgeous exfoliants are expensive.
To me, self-care isn't really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.
I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn't mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.
We focus so much on our relationships with other people, and beauty, for me, is about facilitating your relationship with yourself.
Self-care is the non-negotiable. That's the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.
To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.
I'm a big proponent of all love winning and love just being fab.
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.
Kristi Yamaguchi stole my heart in 1992, and I've never been the same since.
We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!
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.'
I wish I was a gorgeous mixologist, but that was not my god-given strength.
I think I've been in a lot of really uncomfortable situations, and I think when you're in uncomfortable situations, it kind of polishes you up a little. It shines you up.
Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.
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.
I'm always learning new things about myself.
I am shocked almost on a daily basis that my being me everywhere I go affects people so deeply.
There are times when you should listen to what people say about you, but also a lot of times you just don't need to listen so much. Don't worry so much and just go. Unless you're, like, in danger, and then don't. And then run, girl.
I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.
I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
I don't want to do transformations on people for the sake of a visual. I want to do it because it makes sense.
I'm obsessed with gymnastics. It's like my football. And I like to watch women's gymnastics a little bit more than men's because I live for balance beam.
I'm good at following my own grooming advice.
I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that's icing on the cake.
Loneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don't always wanna be alone, but I definitely like pockets of solitude to recharge and come back to myself. I think that's so important for everyone.
I grew up in a town of 30,000 people, and 'Queer Eye' was a beacon of light.
I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.
You want to be more hairy, that's beautiful. You want to be more clean-shaven, that's great.
Confidence is sexy.
People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too.
If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.
In yoga, we say that everyone has a magnet on them, and you're either positively or negatively charged. So if you're liking how you're looking, you're gonna be more positively charged.
I like people too much. I really do.
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.
You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.
Please don't compare the nature and authenticity of 'Queer Eye' to 'The Bachelor.'
Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.
So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse.
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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