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" 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. "

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

" We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich. "

" My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after. "

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

" Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it. "

Self-Confidence

" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "

" I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime. "

" 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 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 think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world. "

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

" I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together. "

" 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've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way. "

" 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. "

" My mom could be pretty strict. "

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

" I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting. "

" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "

" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "

" I've never been on a television show as a regular before. "

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

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

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

" Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland! "

" I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year. "

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

" The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money. "