Amy Landecker Quotes
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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'm the second wife of Paul Reiser on TV.
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Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.
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It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.
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I'm not someone who had to worry about aging on camera. I was already aged when I got there.
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Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.
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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 am very close to a number of actresses who are trans and hungry for parts.
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You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.
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I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.
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The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my name. I'm the least pretentious actress you can ever meet. Someone said to me that I look like I've been doing this forever, and I said that's because I watch E!
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I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.
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There are people out there every day really fighting the fight for equal rights, equal pay, equal treatment. They're inspiring.
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It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.
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We actually use a lot of improvisation on 'Transparent.'
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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.
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I actually cannot stand a room without a view - I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.
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I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.