Rodger Berman Quotes

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.

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.

I've always dressed like a dude.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

I'm having fun playing with clothes now. I didn't used to appreciate the clothes as much when I was modeling. It was a job.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myself better than the idea of being someone else, someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine.

Fashion is a reflection of the time.

I have no hips, and I feel like my body's like a teenage boy's. But I can have the hair long, put on makeup, wear a dress, and do the exact opposite as well.