Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Try
Problem
History
Related Quotes:
" 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
You
Freedom
Loss
" 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
Me
Amazing
Black
" 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
Me
" 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
Society
Cells
Time
" 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
" 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. "
Natasha Lyonne
Great
Control
Black
" 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. "
Natasha Lyonne
Never
Place
Think
" 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
Me
Know
Listen
" 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
Time
Bed
Black
" I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again. "
Natasha Lyonne
Ever
Feel
Again
" It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another. "
Natasha Lyonne
Help
Ability
Wild
" 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. "
Natasha Lyonne
Look
Hair
Person
" You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them. "
Natasha Lyonne
Read
Books
Got
" 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
Baby
Great
Know
" 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
Day
Woman
Time
" 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
Small
Giving
Feel
" 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
Living
Inevitable
Want
" 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. "
Natasha Lyonne
Know
I Am
Mirror
" 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
Know
White
Every Day
" 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
Trying
Clean
Heart
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Natasha Lyonne
View
Point Of View
People
" 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
God
Look
Story
" I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. "
Natasha Lyonne
Someone
Gate
Acting
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Natasha Lyonne
Deep
Bad
Broken
" I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success. "
Natasha Lyonne
Success
Feel
Self-Made
" 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
" Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships. "
Natasha Lyonne
Work
Life
Away
" 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. "
Natasha Lyonne
Battle
Youth
You