Amy Landecker

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.

Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.

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.

Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.

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.

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.

I'm the second wife of Paul Reiser on TV.

In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the only equipment.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

I am very close to a number of actresses who are trans and hungry for parts.

It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

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.

I'm not someone who had to worry about aging on camera. I was already aged when I got there.

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.

I know people who try open relationships. People I really care about, they're fine with it. That's a personal decision.

I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.

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.

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

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.

I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.

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.