Patti Harrison Quotes

Patti Harrison

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 31, 1990

I'm sure I would still have anxiety even if I got a bunch of surgery, and was the most conventionally attractive, cis-passing woman in the world; I think those are traumas that never go away.

Patti Harrison

I don't think my relationship with the idea of womanhood is that attached to giving birth... like, I'm fully aware that I'll never give birth to a baby, and that's not something that I'm wrecked over.

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Growing up we used to put Saltines in a bowl with milk and dump a bunch of sugar on it and eat it as cereal.

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One time I watched my sister eat a raw potato with peanut butter on it.

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We weren't without food, but there were times when it was definitely a strain. I ate a ton of Hot Pockets and SpaghettiOs and Totino's Pizza Rolls. I still enjoy those flavors.

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Truly, I have boundaries. I am someone who has a very, very, strong, amazing, powerful boundaries. I'm the boundary queen.

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But when I'm nervous, I deflect a lot and it's very easy to fill the space with jokes.

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I think it's probably a normal dream for an actor to be like, 'My movie's premiered at Sundance!'

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If you constantly draw attention to yourself, spend all day distracting everyone, and cost taxpayers millions of dollars, the perfect job for you isn't the military - it's the President of the United States.

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I have dogs at home in Ohio, so it's always nice to see them and just be a lump and collect dog hair and dead skin cells.

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Now, I don't know if we're at a place where we can see a nuanced transgender villain, because unless it can be written in a way that their transness is not the cause of them being evil, I don't think a lot of cis screenwriters are willing to do that. It's all through their lens of assumptions.

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My solo stuff for live shows is very meandering. I write a lot of slower bits that give me room to improvise and play with a character.

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A lot of my comedy isn't necessarily about specific jokes but rather a wacky point of view that a super wacky character has.

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A lot of the work I've been doing on camera has been me speaking on trans issues and illuminating things in a comedic way. That isn't the focus of my personal art, I guess, but it's a privilege for any artist to get to make stuff that isn't just about their oppression or strife or struggle.

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Transgender issues, and LGBT issues generally, have entered the public conversation on a national level, so there's more need to find people to talk about them. Which I think is great! I like to do that, and I think it's important and necessary, but hopefully there will be a day where I don't have to keep talking about it.

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It seems so simple to me. Just let people act and go up for roles, and stop pigeonholing people.

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Not all representation is good representation. I would argue a lot of the marginalized representation in TV and media is off, because a lot of the gatekeepers are white straight cis people who mean well and they think meaning well is enough, and it's not.

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I started doing comedy because it was an escape for me.

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There were times I had body dysmorphia issues.

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