Quotes by Trace Lysette - Page 1

Transparent' was my coming-out party.
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Transparent
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I had a lot of fights in high school.
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School High School High
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I gave up my bread and butter to be an actress.
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Bread
Butter
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It was a dream of mine to be in an action film.
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Action Film
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It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.
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Pigeonholed
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Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.
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Images
Succeeding
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Trans women are women, we're just a different type of women.
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Different Type
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Going to meetings for Time's Up has been deeply affirming for me.
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Affirming
Meetings
Time Me Up
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It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.
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Remove
Secrecy
Transparent
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Sometimes you feel like the only resource you have is your body or your looks.
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Resource
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I always found when I was most focused, that's when I did the best financially.
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Financially
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I used to watch 'Star Trek' on weeknights as a kid while I did my homework for school.
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Homework
Star Trek
Trek
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My body has carried me a long way and has had many evolutions. I honor it, flaws and all.
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Body
Honor
Long
Long Way
Me Long Body
Carried
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It's tough advocating for trans visibility and not being pigeonholed as just a trans actress.
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Advocating
Visibility
Pigeonholed
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That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'
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Next Step
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I have lived my life putting work first, pushing myself to overcome obstacles to get the job done.
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Obstacles
Pushing
Life Work Myself
Overcome
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I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.
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Compromise
Dealing
Endured
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I think that a lot of times people don't understand the bravery that's involved with the Me Too movement.
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Bravery
Me People Understand
Times People
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Transparent' does a good job of pushing the envelope in a real way, not in a sensational or salacious way.
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Good Job
Pushing
Sensational
Transparent
Envelope
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I'm not going to compromise and settle for what I feel is less than I deserve or less than anyone deserves.
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Compromise
Settle
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Oftentimes, I feel like, because of my cisnormative look or my aesthetics, that sometimes my talent might get overlooked.
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Aesthetic
Overlooked
Oftentimes
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Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.
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Margins
Afforded
Folk
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I recall the magic being on set for season one of 'Transparent.' The trans inclusivity of our set was unparalleled at the time.
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Transparent
Recall
Unparalleled
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Now that I'm out there and it's known that I'm trans, I think that sometimes might hinder my opportunity in snagging a big cis role.
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Hinder
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As much of a privilege as it is to pass, it's painful. You have to compartmentalize your life. That's awkward. Dating can be horrible.
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Dating
Horrible
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I think it's really important to understand that every trans story is not the same, and we are as varied as any other group of people.
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Varied
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It felt like home to be working with so many powerful women - Lizzo, Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu. I felt so welcome and loved.
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Jennifer
Welcome
Jennifer Lopez
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You wish that everyone knew what cisgender meant. Everyone has access to Google. You can find out what's appropriate to ask a trans person.
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Appropriate
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My own experience of dating cis-hetero men has really been a challenge, because of the stigma they have to endure for attempting to love us.
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Dating
Attempting
Endure
Stigma
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Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees us.
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Anytime
Sees
Shift
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Drag was not only my introduction to womanhood, but my introduction to entertainment. It was the first time I realized that I could move a crowd.
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Drag
Entertainment
First Time
Introduction
Womanhood
Crowd
Realized
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I'm not getting into rooms for cis roles. I started my career auditioning for those roles, and then I went to play trans roles. And now, I feel boxed in.
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Rooms
Auditioning
Boxed
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Trans women should be accepted and celebrated, whether they look a little bit more on the masculine side of the spectrum or they're the femme of all fems.
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Accepted
Femme
Masculine
Spectrum
Celebrated
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Trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, and we're not even being afforded the opportunity to tell our own stories. I feel that is problematic.
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Afforded
Audition
Problematic
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In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.
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Contentment
Personal Life
Life Love Myself
Catch
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I don't have shame around where I've been or what I've done to survive to get to where I'm at in my life. When you don't have shame around something, it can't hurt you.
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Hurt
Life My Life Done
Survive
To Survive
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Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.
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Constraints
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I lived what we call 'stealth' for a number of years. Even when I started acting in the industry, I didn't disclose. I didn't come out. My first job on 'Law & Order' was not a trans role.
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Stealth
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I think I had something to prove to myself, that I could book a cis role and then if I did come out one day and start auditioning for trans roles, I could say, 'Look, I've already worked in a cis role.'
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Auditioning
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How often do we get to see trans people interacting with each other onscreen? We have friends. Hello? We're people. We're not just this isolated unit all the time. I would like to see us carry a project.
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Hello
Interacting
Isolated
Time People See
Carry
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Unit
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Everyone has a voice. I mean, that's the good side to the Internet Age and social media. Obviously, there's negatives to it, but I think that the fact that everyone has a voice now is a tool that we can use for good.
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Internet Age
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Trans women are conditioned to accept that society sees us as overly sexualized objects - even more so than how society already sexualizes cis women. It's almost as if they don't see us as fully developed human beings.
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Conditioned
Overly
Sees
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I feel like if Hollywood can stretch for inclusion and intersectionality, and being intentional with its intersectionality, that that can ripple out past Hollywood into whatever industry and kind of affect society as a whole.
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Hollywood
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Industry
Ripple
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Stretch
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I got to choreograph a halftime dance with the cheerleading squad, which was all-female, at my high school. And I was the only boy, at the time. We did this whole routine to 'Maria Maria' by Santana, and 'Thong Song' by Sisqo - it was a mix.
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Halftime
Routine
Squad
Choreograph
Maria
Mix
Thong
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We have to be intentional with including trans women, all women, all marginalized people. Whether we say 'Me Too' or call ourselves feminists or strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the world we live in, it's all about being intentional.
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Diverse
Marginalized
Strive
Workplace
Women World Me
All Women
Feminists
Intentional
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A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it's a survival tactic.
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Chosen
My Generation
Survival
Family Community Me
Unabashedly
Family Community Black
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When we get to a point when trans folks are included in the creative process, the narrative will be much more authentic. Trans actors playing trans roles is a key part of that. But some of the trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, let's be honest.
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Creative Process
Narrative
Audition
Included
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How will I become Meryl Streep if I can't even get in the door with Jennifer Lawrence for the same role? I think that it starts with casting directors and executives and studio heads opening up their minds, and really putting an effort into being trans inclusive in their projects, whether they're trans-specific or not.
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Casting
Casting Directors
Executives
Jennifer
Opening
Inclusive
Heads
Jennifer Lawrence
Lawrence
Meryl
Meryl Streep
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