Quotes from Trace Lysette

Sometimes you feel like the only resource you have is your body or your looks.

In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it's a survival tactic.

Trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, and we're not even being afforded the opportunity to tell our own stories. I feel that is problematic.

I always found when I was most focused, that's when I did the best financially.

Drag was not only my introduction to womanhood, but my introduction to entertainment. It was the first time I realized that I could move a crowd.

Transparent' was my coming-out party.

Going to meetings for Time's Up has been deeply affirming for me.

It was a dream of mine to be in an action film.

That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'

I recall the magic being on set for season one of 'Transparent.' The trans inclusivity of our set was unparalleled at the time.