Natasha Lyonne Quotes

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Natasha Lyonne

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 4, 1979

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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'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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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