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" I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. "

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" I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't. "

" When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire. "

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

" I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college. "

" I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot. "

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

" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "

" It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets. "

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

" I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. "

" 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 mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "

" I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea. "

" I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball. "

" I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. "

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

" I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.' "

" I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid. "

" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "

" Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women. "

" 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. "

" I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work. "

" Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. "

" It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had. "

" I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. "

" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "

" People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me. "