“If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get...” — Carmen Carrera Quote

If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.

When you transition, it's a long process. Some people are so, like, ignorant about it. They're like, 'Oh she's a girl tomorrow.' It's not like that. You have to literally, you take all this medication. It's really hard on your body.

I'm not Laverne Cox. I'm not Janet Mock... I'm just a girl from New Jersey who has experience and lived.

Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.

We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.

When K. Balachander saw me for the first time, he booked me for three films and asked me to learn Tamil first.

I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

I was broke, I was out of food, I was desperate and I had no options. All I could do was surrender my circumstances, my career, my life, my finances, everything over to God. Three months later, I booked 'The Chosen.' My life's never been the same since, and so I give all credit to God's impact in my life.