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" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "

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" I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea. "

" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "

" Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.' "

" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "

" I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really. "

" People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!' "

" I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing. "

" I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good. "

" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "

" The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s. "

" It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore. "

" My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present. "

" My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused. "

" Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written. "

" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "

" There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living. "

" Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator. "

" I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.' "

" I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part. "

" There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress. "

" I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. "

" I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. "

" I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch. "

" I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up. "

" I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film. "

" It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self. "

" I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!' "

" As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain. "

" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "