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" 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. "

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" 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

Living

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much. "

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

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

" When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be. "

Natasha Lyonne

Know

Listen

" 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

Blue

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw. "

" I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing. "

Natasha Lyonne

Amazing

Black

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "