Amanda Peet Quotes

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

I've never had a highly developed sense of being female. The sexuality has either been stopped, or else it's been an exaggerated P J Harvey kind of sexuality.

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.

I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

… a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness for a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman

The characters I've played that people have noticed included a cross-dresser and a transsexual.

At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards.

Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy?

I would not want to play a girl who masquerades as a boy for the rest of my life.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.