Growing up Quote by Trace Lysette Download Open image “Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.” — Trace Lysette ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing up Images Trans Never People People Succeeding Saw Saw Images Succeeding Trans People Up
When I first appeared in the media, it was rare to see trans people on TV, and young trans kids were unheard of. — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of… — Teddy Geiger Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that trans people are anointed, and because of our experiences and the unique way we see the world, we can… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
Many people don't have trans people in their lives. They don't have that experience to know that they're just normal people who not only… — Jeff Varner Copy Share Image
Often people detransition because life as a trans person is very difficult. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where… — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
Trans men and women have always been thrown to the sides, but... have always been the nurturers, especially trans women. — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Trans people are a minority. But for every person like me who's made a conscious step to do something about the feeling we've had… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
I feel like if Hollywood can stretch for inclusion and intersectionality, and being intentional with its intersectionality, that that can ripple out past Hollywood… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
I'm not getting into rooms for cis roles. I started my career auditioning for those roles, and then I went to play trans roles.… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
I used to watch 'Star Trek' on weeknights as a kid while I did my homework for school. — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
As much of a privilege as it is to pass, it's painful. You have to compartmentalize your life. That's awkward. Dating can be horrible. — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
When we get to a point when trans folks are included in the creative process, the narrative will be much more authentic. Trans actors… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.' — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
I recall the magic being on set for season one of 'Transparent.' The trans inclusivity of our set was unparalleled at the time. — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
Trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, and we're not even being afforded the opportunity to tell our own stories.… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are. — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
![“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.” quote by Shaquille O'Neal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08f/shaquille-o-neal-659_age_i-failed-i-think-seven-or-eight-times-be_2731.jpg)
