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" 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? "

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" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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