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" 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. "

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" I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight. "

Natasha Lyonne

Think

Time

People

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

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

" 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

Think

Talking

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works. "

" 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