Top 30 Trace Lysette Quotes

It’s important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.

Everyone has a voice. I mean, that’s the good side to the Internet Age and social media. Obviously, there’s negatives to it, but I think that the fact that everyone has a voice now is a tool that we can use for good.

Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.

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

It’s not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

I had a lot of fights in high school.

It’s tough advocating for trans visibility and not being pigeonholed as just a trans actress.

Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees us.

Transparent’ was my coming-out party.

I feel like if Hollywood can stretch for inclusion and intersectionality, and being intentional with its intersectionality, that that can ripple out past Hollywood into whatever industry and kind of affect society as a whole.

I gave up my bread and butter to be an actress.

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

My own experience of dating cis-hetero men has really been a challenge, because of the stigma they have to endure for attempting to love us.

Trans women are women, we’re just a different type of women.

I happen to believe that trans people are anointed, and because of our experiences and the unique way we see the world, we can bring so much to a role. We just need the opportunity to show that.

My body has carried me a long way and has had many evolutions. I honor it, flaws and all.

Oftentimes, I feel like, because of my cisnormative look or my aesthetics, that sometimes my talent might get overlooked.

I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.

I don’t have shame around where I’ve been or what I’ve done to survive to get to where I’m at in my life. When you don’t have shame around something, it can’t hurt you.

Now that I’m out there and it’s known that I’m trans, I think that sometimes might hinder my opportunity in snagging a big cis role.

I have lived my life putting work first, pushing myself to overcome obstacles to get the job done.

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.

I’m not going to compromise and settle for what I feel is less than I deserve or less than anyone deserves.

As a trans woman, I have always had to rise up and take the high road.

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.

That is the next step for out trans actors – to just be treated as actors and not ‘trans actors.’

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

I think I had something to prove to myself, that I could book a cis role and then if I did come out one day and start auditioning for trans roles, I could say, ‘Look, I’ve already worked in a cis role.’

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

I think that a lot of times people don’t understand the bravery that’s involved with the Me Too movement.