Amy Landecker

“We actually use a lot of improvisation on 'Transparent.'”

“I think human beings are funny, tricky things.”

“I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated for an Oscar. I think it's one of the greatest female performances I've ever seen on screen, and I think she's wildly talented.”

“I know people who try open relationships. People I really care about, they're fine with it. That's a personal decision.”

“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.”

“I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.”

“I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big '70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang 'Da Do Ron Ron' to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I feel like sometimes, when I talk about 'Transparent,' I'm in a cult. And in some ways, I guess I sort of am, although it's a cult that pays me, and I don't pay it, so maybe that's a really good cult.”

“I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.”

“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!”

“Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.”

“If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.”

“You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.”

“I'm the second wife of Paul Reiser on TV.”

“I am very close to a number of actresses who are trans and hungry for parts.”

“It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.”

“I learned about not just being with someone because I don't want to be alone: being willing to be alone, and then find something that feels right and just reaching for companionship for companionship's sake. Not letting drama lead my life.”

“When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.”