Quotes from Brigette Lundy-Paine

People with autism are extremely good at working... in a scripted environment, because that's how they live their lives a lot of the time.

Subtle Pride is an improvisational voice band.

My parents are both artists, they had a theater company in the Bay Area for a long time called Virago. I never really had a choice - when I was two years old, I was the baby in a play that they did, and it kind of just happened naturally.

I've learned that it comes in so many different shapes and sizes, and that communities with autism are extremely supportive of one another.

Most people think that it would be hard to be on a set or act for people with autism. But when you think about it, most people with autism use a script in their daily life to communicate in social situations, like at a restaurant, or you know, with a day-to-day conversation.

My whole life, I always wanted to be a Disney Channel kid.

I love playing an old witch or a young boy. When I was younger, I would always volunteer to play the male lead.

I'm feeling in the earth a massive shift, in especially female consciousness, that is... slightly different than feminism. It feels like this mass reexamination of the stories we're being told.

I always imagined myself sitting on a ship. Diving in, catching a fish, putting the fish under the microscope, looking at it, categorising it, catching an alien, and saving the world.

What I find so special about acting - especially being female in this world, and growing up with such intense standards of how you should be - is that you can break those rigid models.

Instagram doesn't leave a lot of room for nuance.

I've always felt that activism and art go hand in hand.

My mom was a special-needs teacher for many years, so I knew her students. And one of my best friends from when I was growing up is a teacher for kids with autism now.