Natasha Lyonne Quotes

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

I am a hooker with a heart of gold.

You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.

My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.

I just never get into trouble. It's not my thing.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.

Let's face it. I'm an open book.

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.

I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

My car is always black. I really struggle with red cars. I don't want to attract too much cop attention.