Patti Harrison

“There are very few moments in my life where I feel normalcy.”

“'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.”

“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.'”

“A lot of the stuff that I want to create personally is usually pretty absurd or silly comedy stuff.”

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

“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 haven't been in a million things. And most of them have been really small, or guest parts.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 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'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.”

“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.”

“I try and be as vulnerable in my comedy as possible, to open that door for other people.”

“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.”

“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 started doing comedy because it was an escape for me.”

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

“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.”