Quotes by Amy Landecker - Page 1

I'm the second wife of Paul Reiser on TV.
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Paul
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I think human beings are funny, tricky things.
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Tricky
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We actually use a lot of improvisation on 'Transparent.'
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Improvisation
Transparent
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When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.
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Younger
Everyone
Cox
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I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.
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Lasted
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I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.
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Talented
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I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.
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Combination
Self Loathing
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I am very close to a number of actresses who are trans and hungry for parts.
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Hungry
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I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.
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Cold
Identify
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It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.
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Bathroom
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'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.
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Curb
Done Anything Never
Wild
Done Never Anything
Improvised
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I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.
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Life Amazing My Life
Creatively
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I'm not someone who had to worry about aging on camera. I was already aged when I got there.
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Aging
Aged
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I can do a really loud monkey call. I can put both my legs behind my back. And I can stick my fist in my mouth.
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Legs
Loud
Behind
Call
Fist
Monkey
Mouth
Stick
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Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.
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First Time
Loud
Stressful
Cable
Time Always First Time
Network
Reads
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You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.
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Eclipse
Seeing
Work Personality Your
Anymore
Interested
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Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.
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Hurt
Protect
Wanna
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There are people out there every day really fighting the fight for equal rights, equal pay, equal treatment. They're inspiring.
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Inspiring
Equal
Equal Pay
Fighting
Pay
Rights
Treatment
Fight Day People
Fight
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Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.
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Crew
Longest
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In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the only equipment.
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Equipment
Lights
On And Off
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I will spend anything on the best sheets in the world because I am going to be in them every night. I like them white and crazy soft.
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Every Night
Sheets
Best World I Am
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I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.
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Narrative
Handling
Pathway
Wonderful Way
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I actually cannot stand a room without a view - I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.
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Bedroom
Size
Suite
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The pedicure is beside the point - the rub is all I care about. And not just my feet, my calves and thighs. There is nothing better, except maybe a scalp massage.
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Feet
Massage
Thighs
Beside
Except
Maybe
Rub
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If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.
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Mistreated
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I made a sort-of living in the beginning of my acting career as a reporter. I think my very first job was 'Early Edition' as reporter no. 1, and for 'Light It Up,' I was reporter no. 2.
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Acting
Light
Acting Career
Beginning
Reporter
Early
Edition
First Job
In The Beginning
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It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.
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Exhausted
Tired
Being Used
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I feel like sometimes, when I talk about 'Transparent,' I'm in a cult. And in some ways, I guess I sort of am, although it's a cult that pays me, and I don't pay it, so maybe that's a really good cult.
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Cult
Transparent
Good Me Feel
Good Me Sometimes
Although
Guess
Pays
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Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.
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Jane
Life Work Power
Buzzing
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I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.
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Anger
Conflict
Emotion
Rage
Life Me My Life
Be Nice
Tap
Particularly
Personally
Scariest
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I think that with these streaming shows, sometimes it takes a little time for everybody to - because they know they have time, you know it's up there - you'll get to it when you get to it. It sort of like, 'Oh, it's on my list.'
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Streaming
Time Sometimes Know
List
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Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you've got to have some good stuff to listen to.
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Commercials
Dial
Car Good Home
Satellite
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I learned about not just being with someone because I don't want to be alone: being willing to be alone, and then find something that feels right and just reaching for companionship for companionship's sake. Not letting drama lead my life.
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Companionship
Reaching
Sake
Life Alone My Life
Letting
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I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big '70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang 'Da Do Ron Ron' to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.
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Air
Childhood
Icons
Radio
Rock Star
Time Childhood Me
John
Met
Sang
Onstage
Radio Station
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You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.
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Clouds
First Love
Waiting
Love Time Money
Interruption
Waters
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I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated for an Oscar. I think it's one of the greatest female performances I've ever seen on screen, and I think she's wildly talented.
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Afternoon
Delight
Female
Opinion
Talented
In My Opinion
Performance
Nominated
Oscar
Screen
Wildly
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Some of the greatest stuff that I watch, that I'm drawn to, is deeply flawed human beings, because they're representing a part of us that might not be all of us but the part we're most afraid to look at, and so we get to vicariously experience it through this character.
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Flawed
Representing
Drawn
Vicariously
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The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my name. I'm the least pretentious actress you can ever meet. Someone said to me that I look like I've been doing this forever, and I said that's because I watch E!
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Carpet
Pretentious
Red Carpet
Beautiful Me Look
Beautiful Look Me
Screaming
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