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" 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

Family

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Natasha Lyonne

Life

Living

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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