Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Patti Harrison
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
And like, I think when I was 14, I was like, OK, I'm going to go to college. I'm going to get out of college when I'm, like, 21, 22, then I'm going to get married. Then, I'm going to, like, be, like, rock star-musician-scientist.
A lot of people tweet me things like, 'My 3-year-old son is trans and you inspire us.'
That's always been really funny to me - someone who really stridently believes that they're right when they're so wrong in, like, the worst way. Not only do they believe that they're right, but they believe that everyone thinks that they're right, and are comfortable with that.
If someone writes a stereotyped trans character, it's really harmful on a macro level in solidifying public perception of trans people because we're such a small minority group but it's also detrimental to the life of the actor, who needs the paycheck even if the role is bad.
For the most part, there's not a ton of out and working trans comedians, or people who are visible.
A lot of what I say isn't my real thoughts, it's this character, and maybe that's true for a lot of comedians. It's really the inversion of my thoughts.
We need to afford people from minority groups and marginalized communities the chance to inhabit spaces they're often held out of because of stereotyping.
Not all representation is good representation. I would argue a lot of the marginalized representation in TV and media is off, because a lot of the gatekeepers are white straight cis people who mean well and they think meaning well is enough, and it's not.
I've been pretty open to just seeing what my opportunities are and what comes my way.
People assume because you're a comedian that you want to be an actor or that you want to be a writer too. It is a very cool kind of open-ended place to enter because I don't know if I ever really imagined myself working in a writers room or acting in that capacity.
I don't even think Trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots.
I definitely have a dark sense of humor, and in ways I think that comes from having a lot of childhood trauma - a little bit, not fully.
I want to see what my opportunities are, of course. And I want to see how high things go. But I also just ultimately have the most fun when I'm making stuff that I feel like makes me laugh.
I don't think I ever want to just leave comedy and become a straight dramatic actor. But if the opportunity comes, I would love to be seen as universally talented in all trades.
A lot of the stuff that I want to create personally is usually pretty absurd or silly comedy stuff.
I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way - being OK with it.
Voiceover stuff is always so fun. It's very easy to do.
I think I identify as a comedian before kind of anything else. Before I identify as a person, as a human being with empathy.
I mean, there are things that I've experienced that I don't joke about because I'm just like, 'People don't really think it's funny that I had an eating disorder for a long time.' There are some things that just like really bum people out.
Cisgender people tend to want trans stories of triumph that are easy to metabolize. I want to make things that are subversive and not so entry-level.
'Together Together' is at its core a spiritual companion piece to 'Mortal Kombat.' So if you're seeing 'Mortal Kombat,' I hope you're also seeing 'Together Together' 'cause they are very similar films.
Being on camera has really rehashed a lot of old feelings, because I dealt with body dysmorphia for a long time.
I'm sure I would still have anxiety even if I got a bunch of surgery, and was the most conventionally attractive, cis-passing woman in the world; I think those are traumas that never go away.
I don't like to eat octopus. They're so smart.
It's fun to gossip and stuff. But once it's millions of people - the scale of that, I think, is more damaging to the health of the people that are getting speculated about.
It's really cool to read feedback. I'm trying not to engage too much, though, because I spiral out even if the reviews are, like... positive.
I feel like I'm just pretty - any time I have, like, a lot of emotions happening at one time, I just - everything gets really, like, muddy. Like, I feel just, like, in a haze or something.
I like to make up my own lines and dress myself and act like myself and no other characters.
There are very few moments in my life where I feel normalcy.
I try and be as vulnerable in my comedy as possible, to open that door for other people.
I perform in spaces that are very inclusive and protective.
I haven't been in a million things. And most of them have been really small, or guest parts.
My character was in 'Raya and the Last Dragon' for a second, but that's a win for all trans-kind.
I think there will always be a part of me that kind of fanboys out about action sci-fi.
I was super, super into Pokemon.
A lot of what I think is funny is usually through some sort of character, or speaking earnestly one second and then saying something obviously joking.
I just want people to know that. I'm not trying to make space for other trans women.
It's like, whether or not you're humiliated or embarrassed or you do well is contingent on the choices that you make in your work. So that is a lot of pressure to be like, 'Oh no, am I doing the right thing? Am I doing something cool? Am I doing something bad?'
I literally never thought I would be playing a pregnant cis woman earnestly. I thought maybe I'd do that in a sketch or something.
There's like a little bit of a narcissism - I think there's more than a little bit of narcissism about it, but it's just that you can become so anxious and self-obsessive about whether this thing that I'm writing is good; is this joke that I'm making good?
I've thought about my relationship to my body, my body dysmorphia, and what that means as someone who's like, 'Oh, I'm going to be on camera.' Sometimes it makes my body dysmorphia worse, but I've also tried to not let my mental illness rob the joy of getting to do something I've always wanted to do.
I think I have more fun making jokes online and making stupid Instagram videos than I do in my real life, on stage.
The women that I worship all hit their stride in their 30s or 40s or after. And that's going to be for me, too.
Before I transitioned, I felt like I could walk on stage and just, like, say anything and people would just laugh. And that's kind of a privilege that I just lost through the layers of social context and me being visibly a political object in a lot of people's brains.
My dream is to get rich enough from an absolutely soul-disintegrating campaign where I sell my morals to buy a house in Ohio near my family.
I can still advocate for a marginalized community, while also thinking dog humping is really funny.
Hopefully, we're moving toward a place where representation conversations won't have to happen so much because the playing field is more level.
I shouldn't tell anyone that I can't drive or cook.
I've worked on things before where you don't really have a say in what you wear. You go in and they're like, 'You're wearing this,' and you're like, 'I'm like not comfortable showing that much skin.'
There were times I had body dysmorphia issues.
I love coverage. My ideal dress would be a turtleneck that goes all the way up to my chin, and then sleeves that go past my fingers. And then the dress goes all the way to the floor, and you see the very tips of my toes.
The more money that's involved in something, it's usually because there are more hands involved. There are more interests to serve.
Those are the frustrations in this industry - the boxes and the labels, where they say, 'You are this one thing and this is the only thing that makes you unique or viable. So just be trans. And here's a stamp on your forehead and all your characters will be wearing a fake mustache and saying, 'Dad, I want to wear pantyhose.'
I didn't know if I was going to go into acting more, or kind of lean into TV writing or comedy.
I have a hard time describing myself as a standup comedian because I don't feel like I'm doing stand up jokes more than I am acting like a person who has a bad point of view.
I don't think my relationship with the idea of womanhood is that attached to giving birth... like, I'm fully aware that I'll never give birth to a baby, and that's not something that I'm wrecked over.
I'm from a town in Ohio called Orient.
That's just my journey in life, to be the most creative and successful and talented person that ever lived.
Animation has revitalized a part of my brain that says, 'Oh yeah, I do like doing this. This is fun.'
My mom is pretty unimpressed by everything. She loves black-and-white movies, and the only things she watches in color on T.V. are Judge Judy and Geico commercials because she loves the Geico gecko. I think it would mean something to her if I made it in a Geico commercial.
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