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

Natasha Lyonne Quotes

American - Actress Born: April 4, 1979

The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly. Natasha Lyonne

Shower, Some, Submit

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

Success, Entitled, Self-Made

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

Need, Like, Ever

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

Jumping, Bed, I Remember

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

Year, Back, Moved

As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day. Natasha Lyonne

Woman, Rest, Having

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

Love, Would, Lot

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

Living, Nothing, About

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

School, Someone, Doing

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

Small, Giving Up, Here

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

Your Child, Been, Gypsy

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

Clean Up, Away, Lot

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

Work, Away, Dropping

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

Help, Other, Relating

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

Always, Sense, Large

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

Complex, Made, Getting

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

Society, Holding, Lot

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

Show, Cops, Terrifying

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

Living, Inevitable, Flies

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

Doing, American, 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

Level, Some, About

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

Beauty, Never, Trip

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?' Natasha Lyonne

Woman, Think, Movie

I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away. Natasha Lyonne

Talking, Away, Boyfriend

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent. Natasha Lyonne

Doing, Going, Rather

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

Hair, Like, Asking

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