Josie Totah

“I feel like we need to create more roles that give LGBTQ people the opportunity to be on screen.”

“You can do whatever you wanna do. If you're a girl - girl, you get on the football team, okay? If you identify as a boy, you put on some makeup, and you work that stage!”

“As long as you've got pride, you're good.”

“My pronouns are she, her, and hers. I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female. And my name is Josie Totah.”

“I am very aware of the boring life of Sacramento.”

“Not only was I really, really depressed when I was not out to the world, but I just finished my NBC series, and I didn't think it was right to come out during that when I was playing a male character.”

“I was literally so different that I could not hide or be shy.”

“I want to tell everyone that no matter what's keeping them from being their authentic self to hold on to the hope that there will be an end to that road. There will be a life where they can live their true self.”

“I like to think of myself as a confidently outgoing person.”

“I saw my sister in this production of 'Whistle Down the Wind' - my sister was a really big theater kid - and when I saw her do that, I was so obsessed. Those were like my first words; I was singing along to the songs. From that point on, I did theater, and then I got into acting in film and television.”

“I'm a pretty fearless person. I'm afraid of, like, creepy men in white vans and sidewalks with no streetlights. But I'm not afraid to go in front of someone and twerk on them.”

“I get reached out to by a lot of people who just thank me for representing them and their friends. Just showing people like them on TV. It's just really awesome to hear from them.”

“On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys.”

“Pretty much my dreams came true when I did a duet with Lea Michele.”

“I am an avid SoulCycler, so I feel like I get some credit for that. I just don't like the idea of people looking at each other while they sweat.”

“When I was on 'The View,' I went backstage to Whoopi Goldberg's dressing room, and she told me, 'People are going to love what you do, and people are going to hate what you do, but you have to keep doing it. You have to stand up and do what you know is true, despite what people are going to say.' And I'm taking that into every aspect of my life.”

“I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.”

“This is going to sound bad, but it's not hard to be super mean. It's actually really fun to play a mean boy.”

“I definitely stuck out like a sore thumb. I came to the conclusion - I had to at such a young age - if no one was going to be like me, then I just have to own it. If I can't be like everyone else, then I might as well just own who I am.”

“My entire family, we were obsessed with 'Glee,' so when I got an audition, I was freaking out. But I knew exactly what to do, I had watched the show so many times.”