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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don’t feel entitled to success. – Natasha Lyonne
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships. – Natasha Lyonne
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
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
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
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
It’s a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another. – Natasha Lyonne
