Quotes from Patti Harrison

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.

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

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

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

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

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!'

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.

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.

Hopefully, we're moving toward a place where representation conversations won't have to happen so much because the playing field is more level.

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 think I identify as a comedian before kind of anything else. Before I identify as a person, as a human being with empathy.

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.

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.

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

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.

Animation has revitalized a part of my brain that says, 'Oh yeah, I do like doing this. This is fun.'

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 don't even think Trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots.

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

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 literally never thought I would be playing a pregnant cis woman earnestly. I thought maybe I'd do that in a sketch or something.

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.

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.