Dan Levy Quotes

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

Either sex alone is half itself.

I have a lot of characteristics that would normally be present in a guy and then less that would be present in a woman.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

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

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.