Laverne Cox Quotes

United States, Actress
May 29, 1972

Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word. This made her the first openly transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

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I was an actress long before I was a reality TV person.

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- Reality

When people find out you're an actress, they Google you.

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What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

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Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

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I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

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I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

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I don't have children, and I don't want children.

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- Children

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

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- Mother
- Father
My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.

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