Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Patti Harrison - Page 2

There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get a clean take and you're doing the same thing over and over again.

Improv is really fun but it's a lot harder to show people your work if they don't come to your show. Something about the energy doesn't transfer on tape.

I have to think about being transgender so much that it's kind of the most boring thing in the world to me.

I'm always afraid to talk about stuff because I'm afraid to get ahead of myself or jinx something.

Coming out of 'Shrill,' depending on who's directing, they'll let you ad lib sometimes, you can pitch ideas if you have them.

One time I watched my sister eat a raw potato with peanut butter on it.

I started doing comedy because it was an escape for me.

I have dogs at home in Ohio, so it's always nice to see them and just be a lump and collect dog hair and dead skin cells.

There are so many rom-coms that I think are insane. But they're the kind of movies that I put on when I need something that I know isn't gonna horrify me before I go to sleep.

I have seen a billion rom-coms, but the majority I've been hate-watching on purpose, to laugh at them and not with them.

I feel like my timeline has moved so many times in my brain. I used to be like, 'Maybe like 30' because that's when my older sister had her first kid. Now that I'm 30, I'm like, 'I don't want to have a baby in a long time!'

I want to make comedy that my mom will hate.

San Francisco is like, the most expensive city to live in, in the United States.

I don't want to be solely a dramatic actor. It's such an important part of my quality of life to goof around and talk about my farts.

A lot of the work I've been doing on camera has been me speaking on trans issues and illuminating things in a comedic way. That isn't the focus of my personal art, I guess, but it's a privilege for any artist to get to make stuff that isn't just about their oppression or strife or struggle.

There aren't a ton of trans people in general, so in any vocation there's probably not going to be a ton of trans people. So I've been thinking about what me doing stand-up or me doing comedy means in terms of representation.

It seems so simple to me. Just let people act and go up for roles, and stop pigeonholing people.

I know that I'm very feminine and that I can pass in a lot of situations, but I think a lot of people's perceptions of me are also informed by my the pictures that I post online, which are as flattering as possible.

And I mean, I watched all of 'Friends' in college. I liked it growing up, and it's a very nostalgic show for me.

If Ohio was a food, it would be Benadryl. If Chicago was pizza, Ohio is Benadryl, or some sort of generic over-the-counter.

I'm sorry, I see everything in life as a song, so every word spoken is lyrics. If you're going to get to know me, that is something you have to be okay with.

I feel like some of the delivery that people find funny is literally me trying to remember the exact line in real time.

Truly, I have boundaries. I am someone who has a very, very, strong, amazing, powerful boundaries. I'm the boundary queen.

If you have a soft chin you can write an amazing song about me that involves an alien from my favorite movie, and then I'm yours.

Transgender issues, and LGBT issues generally, have entered the public conversation on a national level, so there's more need to find people to talk about them. Which I think is great! I like to do that, and I think it's important and necessary, but hopefully there will be a day where I don't have to keep talking about it.

I think my relationship with social media has changed so much that I really resent social media now. And I'm trying to figure out what a successful exit strategy is as someone who has gotten a lot of opportunities because of social media and how it's given me a portfolio.

My solo stuff for live shows is very meandering. I write a lot of slower bits that give me room to improvise and play with a character.

It seems like studios and networks only greenlight stuff that has familiarity to them. If you can be like, 'Oh, it's 'Workaholics,' but it's Asian girls,' they're like, 'Yeah, we've got it. We know exactly what the show is. It's greenlit.'

If you constantly draw attention to yourself, spend all day distracting everyone, and cost taxpayers millions of dollars, the perfect job for you isn't the military - it's the President of the United States.

Now, I don't know if we're at a place where we can see a nuanced transgender villain, because unless it can be written in a way that their transness is not the cause of them being evil, I don't think a lot of cis screenwriters are willing to do that. It's all through their lens of assumptions.

Growing up we used to put Saltines in a bowl with milk and dump a bunch of sugar on it and eat it as cereal.

I think it's probably a normal dream for an actor to be like, 'My movie's premiered at Sundance!'

I have a concealed carry, so I actually have a few guns that I keep. I keep them in my big, giant high-waisted fashion pants at all times, and I have two small pink pistols because I'm a woman.

I would say that I'm not a fan at all of Woody Allen's.

To me, it feels like every time I'm watching some trans story, it's about their grief around their gender. And there's not really a lot of opportunity for them to explore stories outside of that. It's just really frustrating. It's really one dimensional.

But when I'm nervous, I deflect a lot and it's very easy to fill the space with jokes.

I don't feel like I thrive doing livestream comedy, per se. It really triggers a lot of little neuroses that I have about performing and it's not conducive to me to do a good job.

A lot of my comedy isn't necessarily about specific jokes but rather a wacky point of view that a super wacky character has.

I deal with body dysmorphia a lot, so it's always a process to see and hear myself on camera. I have to be in the right mental mode to not be hyper-critical of myself.

We weren't without food, but there were times when it was definitely a strain. I ate a ton of Hot Pockets and SpaghettiOs and Totino's Pizza Rolls. I still enjoy those flavors.