Natasha Lyonne Quotes

American - Actress Born: April 4, 1979

Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day. Natasha Lyonne

Day, Every Day, You, Outfit, Know, White

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody. Natasha Lyonne

Yourself, Think, You, Lose, Place, Never

That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy. Natasha Lyonne

You, Easy, Know, Strangers, Comfort, Way

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. Natasha Lyonne

Compassion, Myself, Broken, Deep, Bad

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

Life, Work, People, Life Is A, Coming

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

School, Doing, Acting, Someone, Gate

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. Natasha Lyonne

Blue, Me, World, Safe, Always, Sense

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

You, Books, Imagine, Got, Well, Them

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

Life, Experience, Always, See, Absurdity

I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach. Natasha Lyonne

Mother, Beach, New York, Miami, She, New

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

People, Help, Wild, Ability, Other, Just

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said. Natasha Lyonne

Life, Me, Hide, Living, Said, Nothing

I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater. Natasha Lyonne

Fight, City, Small, Better, Feel, Giving

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old. Natasha Lyonne

Great, People, Baby, Child, Think, You

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

Feel, Need, Again, Like, Really, Ever

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away. Natasha Lyonne

Heart, Mind, Friends, Trying, You, Clean

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it. Natasha Lyonne

Time, Black, Teen, Remember, Bed, Spirit

My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me. Natasha Lyonne

Family, Home, Parents, Me, Scholarship

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

Success, Feel, Theory, Self-Made

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. Natasha Lyonne

Fun, Complex, Kid, Outsider, Made

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

Time, Experience, Society, Living, Cells

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. Natasha Lyonne

Freedom, Loss, You, Wild, Up, Show

I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.' Natasha Lyonne

You, Living, Inevitable, Want, Because

I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.' Natasha Lyonne

Me, American, Doing, You, Reunion, Need

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

Great, You, True, Said, Worst, Coming

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

Beauty, Me, Never, Trip, Attracted

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