Amy Landecker Quotes
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When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.
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I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.
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I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.
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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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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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I think human beings are funny, tricky things.
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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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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.'