Asia Kate Dillon 19 Odd Quotes
Asia Kate Dillon 19 Odd Quotese |
I want the United States to be having a much larger and more public conversation about racist capitalism. We need a radical reimagining of the economy in this country.
— Asia Kate Dillon
Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And that has never changed. We are all participating in that.
— Asia Kate Dillon
I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling safe in many environments to talk about it.
— Asia Kate Dillon
Nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and trans people have always been around, just as long as any other type of person.
— Asia Kate Dillon
In my real life, I'm a Black Lives Matter social justice activist, and so it was incredibly interesting to me to play somebody coming from the totally opposite side, whose beliefs are as deeply entrenched - as deeply felt, and given as much gravity, as I give my beliefs.
— Asia Kate Dillon
Gender-neutral clothing is often, for lack of a better term, bags on bags. A baggy shirt with baggy pants, that sort of erases any individuality, as opposed to enhancing it.
— Asia Kate Dillon
When you see white, cisgendered, heterosexual men having conversations about gender identity where they go, 'Oh, those are your pronouns? OK, great. Let's get back to work,' it allows other people to say, 'Maybe if they can do it, I can do it.'
— Asia Kate Dillon
Honestly, from a very young age, before I had the language, really - anywhere that I encountered binary, whether it was in clothing or in toys or in media, it always made me uncomfortable.
— Asia Kate Dillon
I remember specifically a couple of performances that I saw when I was young - River Phoenix in 'Stand by Me' and also Michael Jackson, in particular his ability to command such power and love while maintaining such deep vulnerability. It really moved my soul from a very young age.
— Asia Kate Dillon
I'm always interested in, I would say, not only sharing my wisdom, but acquiring other people's wisdom as well.
— Asia Kate Dillon
I was gender-nonconforming in high school in terms of the way I dressed, in terms of the way I cut my hair.
— Asia Kate Dillon
We have table reads for every episode of 'Billions.' The core cast is smaller than the core cast on 'Orange Is the New Black,' so in that sense, it has more of a theater vibe.
— Asia Kate Dillon
'Orange' is fun. Even when we're doing super-intense, emotional, or physical stuff, we're having fun. We're checking in with each other; we know about each other's lives and know each other's families and relationships. We're really friends.
— Asia Kate Dillon
Once people are made aware of things that they were previously ignorant of, I think people are a lot more willing to really try.
— Asia Kate Dillon
I really like working with different directors. It's really fun.
— Asia Kate Dillon
When you are not working in TV and primarily doing film, you're working with one director for a long period of time, so getting to work with 12 different directors in the span of six months is incredible.
— Asia Kate Dillon
It's interesting that people think that pants are masculine. Pants are pants.
— Asia Kate Dillon
What we need to do is get rid of 'men's' and 'women's' sections and make sections that are, like, 'dresses for tall people,' 'pants for short people,' 'jeans for people with hips,' you know what I mean?
— Asia Kate Dillon
A lot of brands are saying they're going to make 'gender neutral' clothing. But clothing is gender neutral.
— Asia Kate Dillon
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