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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Natasha Lyonne

Human

Funny

Come

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

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

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

" 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. "