“When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, the...” — Ruby Rose Quote

“When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.'”

“You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.”

“As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.”

“If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.”

“I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.”

“The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians' minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.”